Unlike the leader of the doomed Franklin expedition, Roald Amundsen delighted in getting to know and learning from the Inuit.

The Inuit of the far north helped solve the mystery of a doomed 19th-century expedition. Now Canada needs them to strengthen ...

NHMAIN copy 39088015974389 a gift. In 1845, British explorer Sir John Franklin set out on a voyage to find the North-West Passage - the sea route linking the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. The ...

A detail from English artist Edwin Landseer’s 1864 painting “Man Proposes, God Disposes,” depicting ship’s wreckage in the Arctic, human bones, and two polar bears having their way with it all, graces ...

In the summer of 2023, Parks Canada’s underwater archaeology team plunged into a new season of exploration in the icy waters of Nunavut. Their focus: the legendary shipwrecks of HMS Erebus and HMS ...

In 2022, Mark Synnott set sail from his home in Maine to complete the Northwest Passage, the legendary route through the Arctic that connects the Atlantic and Pacific. Synnott wanted to retrace the ...

Appendix contains articles and tables on various subjects relating to science. John Richardson was surgeon and naturalist to the expedition. https://siris-libraries ...