Sir John Franklin's Northwest Passage expedition is a moment of history that piques a great deal of interest and imagination ...

In 1845, Sir John Franklin set out from England with 128 men aboard two ships, the HMS Erebus and the HMS Terror, on a mission to discover the Northwest Passage — a famed sea route from the ...

In Unraveling the Franklin Mystery, Woodman notes that only one Inuit account of the Franklin expedition is “universally accepted among historians.”Rae outlined the earliest version of this ...

Franklin emerged a hero, however, hailed by his countrymen as “The Man Who Ate His Boots” owing to the fact that expedition members resorted to eating leather during their tortured retreat south.

Franklin expedition captain who died in 1848 was cannibalized by survivors Scientists matched DNA of living descendent to Capt. James Fitzjames of the HMS Erebus.

The fate of the Franklin expedition was popularized by Dan Simmons’s 2007 novel, “The Terror,” in which the crew is hounded by a bloodthirsty beast. In its opening pages, ...

An engraving shows the end of Sir John Franklin's ill-fated Arctic expedition based on a painting by British artist W. Thomas Smith exhibited in the Royal Academy in 1896.

Franklin’s expedition left Kent, England, on May 19, 1845, in the hopes of finally mapping a Northwestern route around the world to Asia. By the time the crew left their ships in 1848, ...

Douglas R. Stenton, Stephen Fratpietro, Robert W. Park. Identification of a senior officer from Sir John Franklin’s Northwest Passage expedition. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports ...

Another piece of the Franklin Expedition puzzle has dropped into place. However, like most new bits of information concerning this enduring exploration mystery, it raises more questions than it ...

The mysterious fate of Captain John Franklin’s doomed 1845 voyage into the Arctic to find a way through the Northwest Passage has captured imaginations for over a century and a half. A recent ...

Archaeologists have identified the cannibalized remains of a senior officer who perished during an ill-fated 19th century Arctic expedition, offering insight into its lost crew’s tragic and ...