Franklin’s Lost Expedition was an ill-fated British voyage that attempted to traverse the last unnavigated sections of the Northwest Passage, an ice-riddled sea route between the Atlantic and Pacific ...

The skeletal remains of a senior officer of Sir John Franklin's 1845 Northwest Passage expedition have been identified using DNA and genealogical analyses.

Fitzjames, a seasoned Royal Navy officer, was part of Franklin’s 129-man crew, which set out to explore the Northwest Passage ...

Researchers only discovered the wrecks of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, the ships from John Franklin’s lost expedition, in 2014 and 2016 respectively. They’re already in a race against time to ...

Human remains resting in a remote Arctic cairn, visible emblems of one of the North's most enduring mysteries, finally have a ...

Created by David Kajganich, The Terror premiered in 2018 and dramatizes the ill-fated Arctic expedition led by Captain Sir ...

Jane Franklin (1792–1875) became well known in the middle of the nineteenth century for her tireless campaign to discover the fate of the lost Arctic ... and Lady Franklin's quest to learn the fate of ...

The rare polar sledge flag of a "proud Irishman" and notable 19th Century naval officer could be lost to the UK. Born in County Tipperary, Capt Henry Kellett led two Arctic expeditions to search ...

The acquisition is Franklin’s 10th in four years and, while considerable in size, is much more digestible than Franklin’s 2021 purchase of Legg Mason, a multiboutique firm that doubled ...