OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian explorers have found the wreck of one of two ships lost in the 1845 Franklin expedition to Canada's Northwest Passage, solving an enduring historical mystery and bolstering ...

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In 1845, the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror set sail from England on a mission to chart a passage around the top of North America. Led by Captain Sir John Franklin, the ...

Stunning artifacts have been recovered from the wreck of HMS Erebus, one of two 19th-century Royal Navy ships involved in a doomed expedition to locate the Northwest Passage. Officials in Canada ...

This documentary examines the mysterious 1845 case of a British ship that went missing while trying to navigate passage through Northern Canada to the Pacific Ocean. 160 years ago, the Franklin ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...