Sir John Franklin set out with two ships, the HMS Erebus and the HMS Terror, to find the Northwest Passage. They vanished without a trace, sparking one of history's great maritime puzzles. For years, ...

In May 1845, one of England’s most storied naval officers, Sir John Franklin, launched an expedition to discover the Northwest Passage ... Synott never found Franklin’s frozen resting place ...

The only written record ever found of the disastrous Franklin Northwest Passage expedition of 1845-1848 was discovered in 1859. It was found in a stone cairn erected on the western shore of King ...

Synott never found Franklin’s frozen resting place ... by Sir John Franklin on his ill-fated 1845 search for the Northwest Passage. Illustrated London News, Getty/ Wikimedia Commons Moreover ...

According to records kept shipmate George Best, Frosbisher thought he had found the fabled Northwest Passage. (As portrayed by : Ian Deakin in Canada: A People's History) He dreamt of finding the ...

Amundsen discovered they're not lazy ... and realized he had accomplished the Northwest Passage.” I think this illuminates another very important aspect of Amundsen's personality.

In search of postpandemic adventure, the author sailed the icy arctic waterway that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

The mystery of what happened to Franklin and all of his men has never been entirely solved, though the wrecks of both his ships were discovered earlier this ... about his third attempt to map the ...