The cannibalised skeletal remains of a member of the doomed 1845 British Arctic expedition have been identified as that of Captain James Fitzjames. Three years later, after their ships were trapped in ...

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 ...

In May 1845, 129 British officers and crew members set out in search of the Northwest Passage on HMS “Erebus” and HMS “Terror.” None returned Meilan Solly ...

I am fascinated by both Antarctic and Arctic exploration; no where else on Earth wants humans dead quite like our planet's poles, but folks still manage to eek out an existence in both places. While ...

Scientists from all over the world recently returned home after the largest Arctic expedition to date. The Polarstern, a German ice breaker, housed hundreds of scientists who spent time over the past ...

(CNN) Explorer Robert Falcon Scott died in 1912 while crossing Antarctica, but his story lives on in artifacts that continue to be discovered on the frozen continent at the bottom of the world.The ...