Though Sir John Franklin was a celebrated English explorer with decades of experience, 128 men, and two finely crafted ships, his mission became tragically trapped in ice. A half-century later ...

The only written record ever found of the disastrous Franklin Northwest Passage expedition of 1845-1848 was discovered in 1859. It was found in a stone cairn erected on the western shore of King ...

More information: Douglas R. Stenton et al, Identification of a senior officer from Sir John Franklin's Northwest Passage ...

The expedition was led by Sir John Franklin, an experienced explorer. His goal was to find the Northwest Passage, a shortcut through the Canadian Arctic connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

None would survive. These last members of Sir John Franklin’s doomed 129-man expedition to map the Northwest Passage all perished, many just a few miles from where they’d started—although the bodies ...

It reveals the story about one of the largest manhunts in Canadian history: the search for the lost ships of the Franklin Expedition, an Arctic expedition that disappeared mysteriously more than 170 ...

Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition, by Owen Beattie and John Geiger (Greystone, 1987). It advances the lead poisoning theory after three bodies were exhumed. Unravelling the Franklin ...