More than six decades before Scott reached the South Pole, Sir John Franklin led an expedition into the Canadian Arctic that would turn into the greatest catastrophe in polar history. Attempting ...

Doomed Franklin expedition The Canadian vessel, the Martin Bergmann, found the Terror in the aptly named Terror Bay, off King William Island. The ship, a ...

An expedition to King William Island, Canada, will use a 23-foot unmanned submarine to look for the ships of the last, ill-fated voyage of Sir John Franklin, the former governor of Tasmania.

The Arctic Research Foundation said it spotted the vessel, part of Sir John Franklin’s polar expedition, on the sea bed off King William Island in the Canadian Arctic.

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.

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 ...

So when Sir John Barrow began considering commanders for the 1845 voyage, Franklin was not at the top of the list. Veteran Arctic hands Sir William Edward Parry and Ross were Barrow's first ...

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.

When the weather cleared, the expedition sailed into the Victoria Strait before getting trapped in the ice off King William Island in September 1846. Franklin died on June 11, 1847, per a ...

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.

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.