Marine archaeologists are in a race against time to uncover the secrets of an ill-fated British ship from the nineteenth century. Almost 10 years ago, the husk of HMS Erebus was discovered on a ...

In the summer of 2023, Parks Canada’s underwater archaeology team plunged into a new season of exploration in the icy waters of Nunavut. Their focus: the legendary shipwrecks of HMS Erebus and HMS ...

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 grisly ...

And it was just terrible hardship. But I guessed that some of the men voted to return to the ship because the ship had a lot of canned goods. And, of course, it was a very dangerous wager on their ...

Captain James Fitzjames served as captain of the HMS Erebus, but his rank didn't prevent his men from eating his remains in a desperate bid to survive. Reading time 2 minutes On May 19, 1845, two ...

In May 1845, 129 British officers and crew members set out in search of the Northwest Passage on HMS “Erebus” and HMS “Terror.” None returned Meilan Solly ...

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 ...

It took eight days before the government of Canada was notified of one of the biggest discoveries in the Arctic putting to rest a nearly two-century old mystery. Parks Canada confirmed Monday a ...