Nigel Gambier was sitting in his cosy Suffolk study when he was told that his DNA matched a molar found on a jawbone that had been found on the freezing wilds of King William Island in Canada’s ...

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 ...

Abandoning their ships, which had become locked in sea ice (at around 69 degrees north latitude) near King William Island two winters earlier, the crew had a desperate plan: head south to the Canadian ...

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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 ...