A documentary that will air later this year is clearing up the Canadian Inuit's role in Sir John Franklin's 1845 attempt to discover the Northwest Passage. Passage, a National Film Board documentary ...
The wrecks of two famous Royal Navy ships that were lost on a doomed Arctic mission to locate the Northwest Passage have sparked talk of a modern "curse." Last seen in the 1840s while under the ...
Scientists at the University of Waterloo have identified one of the doomed crew members of Captain Sir John S. Franklin‘s 1846 Arctic expedition to cross the Northwest Passage. According to a recent ...
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The lost expedition that was found decades later
History has no shortage of disappearances. Ships that vanished into fog, explorers who stepped off the edge of the known world and simply never came back. Most are forgotten within a generation. A few ...
Telling the story of the most tragic and fatal Royal Navy expedition that ventured into the Arctic could have turned into a Victorian penny dreadful. Luckily, the curators of Death in the Ice had ...
Sir John Franklin’s doomed expedition to the Arctic captivated the Victorian public with its mysterious disappearance, fruitless rescue missions and gory tales of cannibalism. Now, a set of ...
In 1847, Sir John Franklin and a crew of 128 men disappeared while searching for the fabled Northwest Passage. A National Geographic team sought to find evidence of their fate—but the Arctic doesn’t ...
For more than 170 years, the HMS Terror rested beneath the frigid waters of the Canadian Arctic Ocean holding the secrets to an infamously fatal expedition - until a ...
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