Traversing the ice-bound sea lane across the Arctic Ocean connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans had long been a dream of ...

Mark Synnott admits in the introduction to his new book that “it is out in the high and wild places in this world that I’ve ...

At times it reads like an academic paper, as Synnott references the work of various historians through the years who have investigated the Franklin expedition ... to map the Northwest Passage ...

While they are typically hidden away from the public in a specially designed room, a few will be on view in 2026 for an exhibit reframing the expedition with Indigenous perspectives. INSIDE THE ...

That includes a book called The History of Lapland, which was published in 1682 and is filled with fold-out maps ... the search for Franklin or the search for the Northwest Passage, we have ...

in 1847 to the Canadian Arctic to explore and map the Northwest Passage. All 129 men on the Franklin expedition died. It was the worst disaster for the Royal Navy in its long history of polar ...