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.

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

The fate of the Franklin Expedition has bedeviled millions for nearly two centuries now. In 1845, under the command of Sir John Franklin, two ships, the Erebus and the Terror, set sail from ...

These buttons from the 1850s were left during the search for the lost Franklin expedition. The buttons would guide survivors ...

Louth science communicator, writer, engineer, and performer Dr Niamh Shaw is travelling to the Arctic Circle this month to ...

A rare Arctic rescue button was sold at auction on Tuesday for £6,000, which was 10 times its pre sale estimate. Auctioneer Brian Goodison-Blanks, of Bearnes, Hampton and Littlewood in Exeter, said ...

The island was named after Devon in England and it has no permanent residents due to its treacherous conditions. The ...

Devon Island is often remembered in association with the ill-fated Franklin Expedition of 1845. A total of 129 men, aboard ...

When a white-water rafter fell into the Franklin River, it triggered an extraordinary rescue mission that pushed everyone to ...

In Kaliane Bradley's The Ministry of Time, a young woman must help a naval commander snatched from death in 1847 adapt to the ...

What makes Silversea different is also unrivalled expedition knowledge of the expert crew. Remote places like Svalbard, Greenland and the Canadian Arctic are best explored with the people who know ...

NASA retiree turned private astronaut Peggy Whitson was launched on the fifth flight to orbit of her career early on ...