The year was 1845. Many cartographers and some Arctic explorers in the early 1800’s believed there was a way to sail from ...

Amid frigid Arctic conditions, dwindling rations, and no hope in sight, the surviving crew of Sir John Franklin’s ill-fated 1845 expedition to chart a Northwest Passage to China finally abandoned ...

When Captain James Fitzjames departed the United Kingdom in 1845 on the third Franklin Northwest Passage expedition to the Arctic, he and his crew didn’t know the harrowing fate ahead of them. Their ...

The mysterious fate of Captain John Franklin's doomed 1845 voyage into the Arctic to find a way through the Northwest Passage has captured imaginations for over a century and a half. A recent ...

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Explorers have found the wreck of HMS Terror, the second of two British ships lost in the disastrous 1845 Franklin expedition to Canada's Arctic Northwest Passage, Britain's Guardian newspaper said on ...