In May 1845, one of England’s most storied naval officers, Sir John Franklin, launched an expedition to discover the ...

A few years ago, along with a bunch of other folks, I became mildly obsessed with the AMC series The Terror, which follows two 19th century British ships attempting to navigate the Northwest Passage.

In April 1848, 105 men set out into the frozen heart of the Canadian Arctic. Abandoning their ships, which had become locked in sea ... These last members of Sir John Franklin’s doomed 129-man ...

Highlights the role of the Indigenous peoples in Arctic exploration. The Franklin search season is almost upon us. Last year, during 11 days in early September, Parks Canada underwater archeologists ...

Researchers in Canada have been exploring the wreck of the ill-fated Franklin Expedition. The voyage departed from England in 1845 to chart the Northwest Passage. Michelle Fleury explains the ...

It was found in a stone cairn erected on the western shore of King William Island, near where Franklin's ships had become irretrievably beset in pack ice in 1846. Sealed inside a small tin ...

Inuit interaction with the Franklin expedition is the thread that runs through The Land Was Always Used: An Inuit Oral History of the Franklin Expedition, but it’s the life of the Inuit in ...