Traversing the ice-bound sea lane across the Arctic Ocean connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans had long been a dream of ...

We are in the heart of spring Arctic travel. Some early birds have just finished, others are starting just as the stronger ...

Fragments of bone, found on King William Island in the early 1990s and connected ... Franklin and his men had set out to conquer the Arctic, but in the end, the Arctic conquered them.

It's a busy adventure season in northern Canada, with sledding expeditions on Ellesmere Island, the Northwest Passage, ...

The explorer's voyage will begin from the small Inuit settlement of Gjona Haven on King William Island ... film his entire Arctic journey, which is due to finish on Baffin Island in September ...

It was found in a stone cairn erected on the western shore of King William Island, near where Franklin's ships had become irretrievably beset in pack ice in 1846. Sealed inside a small tin ...

In April 1848, 105 men set out into the frozen heart of the Canadian Arctic. Abandoning their ships, which had become locked in sea ice (at around 69 degrees north latitude) near King William Island ...

Indeed, during his two years studying arctic survival skills from the Netsilik tribe of Inuit on King William Island, polar explorer Roald Amundsen became an expert igloo builder, even though at ...