The famous Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin has a memorial in St John the Evangelist's chapel in Westminster Abbey. He was born on 16th April 1786, the ninth child of Willingham Franklin. His brother ...

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.

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 ...

L’histoire débuta en 1845, lorsque l’explorateur britannique Sir John Franklin mena une expédition dans l’Arctique. Cette mission avait pour but d'acquérir de nouvelles connaissances scientifiques et ...