"Identification of a Senior Officer from Sir John Franklin's Northwest Passage Expedition" by Stenton, Fratpietro and Park ...

One hundred and twenty-eight men, led by one of Britain's most seasoned naval captains, set off from London in May of 1845 to pioneer a route through the icy Northwest Passage. Many sailors ...

a Royal Navy officer who disappeared on a doomed Northwest Passage expedition in Canada more than 175 years ago. Fitzjames ...

None would survive. These last members of Sir John Franklin’s doomed 129-man expedition to map the Northwest Passage all perished, many just a few miles from where they’d started—although the bodies ...

Perhaps the most well-known strip of land in the Northwest Passage is Beechey Island, the final resting place of three of the men involved in one of the worst disasters in polar history. The ill-fated ...

SEATTLE, Jan. 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Seabourn, the leader in ultra-luxury cruising and expedition travel, has unveiled its 2026 itineraries to the Northwest Passage and Canadian Arctic ...

It reveals the story about one of the largest manhunts in Canadian history: the search for the lost ships of the Franklin Expedition, an Arctic expedition ... scientifiques et de découvrir le passage ...

Three summers ago, divers found the first wreck of the Franklin Expedition ... him from England on their quest for the elusive Northwest Passage — what did they do as their grim fate became ...

In 1845, maverick Royal Navy captain Sir John Franklin sailed off the map of the known world with 128 men, to chart the elusive Northwest Passage. No trace of them was ever seen again. Until now.