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 ...

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 ...

The skeletal remains of a senior officer of Sir John Franklin's 1845 Northwest Passage expedition have been identified using DNA and genealogical analyses. The skeletal remains of a senior officer of ...

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 ...

The fan, also a naval historian, helped anthropologists identify the remains of Captain James Fitzjames. The fan, also a naval historian, helped anthropologists identify the remains of Captain James ...

Franklin’s expedition left Kent, England, on May 19, 1845, in the hopes of finally mapping a Northwestern route around the world to Asia. By the time the crew left their ships in 1848, Franklin had ...

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

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 ...