He is currently located on the southeastern side of the unimaginatively named Royal Geographical Society Island. He reached it over the sea ice from his starting point on King William Island.

His greatest hope was to find the famous skipper’s records and diaries, possibly on King William Island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, where Franklin’s two ships became stranded in 1846 ...

He is currently on the southwestern side of King William Island, having traveled across the sea ice from his starting point on the southeastern side. Briton Preet Chandi completed her training ...

Along the way, Rasmussen stayed on King William Island. He wasn’t overly fixated on the fate of the lost Franklin Expedition, but he did collect a couple of haunting stories from residents whose ...

In September 1846, Franklin’s two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, became trapped in the ice near King William Island in northern Canada. “Not a single one of them made it out,” Mr. Synnott ...

Gross was scouting King William Island in a small plane in 2015 when he observed “two black stones standing up vertically on a ridge” that did not belong a few miles inland. But in their ...