The 1845 Franklin Northwest Passage expedition was an unprecedented disaster in the history of British polar exploration, with the loss of all 129 officers and crew and the discovery ships HMS Erebus ...

The identification of the remains also resolved a decades-long debate about the worst disaster in the history of British ...

Crew members on the HMS Erebus and the HMS Terror died after the two ships became trapped in Arctic ice ...

Archaeologists continue to use DNA analysis to identify the recovered remains of the doomed crew members of Captain Sir John S. Franklin’s 1846 Arctic expedition to cross the Northwest Passage. They ...

The failed British voyage set sail in 1845 to map the unnavigated passes of the Northwest Passage and attempt to study magnetic data and figure out if it could be used to better perfect navigation.

DNA from living descendants of relatives have allowed four members of the ill-fated Franklin expedition to be identified.

Nearly 180 years after the failed voyage, archaeologists are finally making progress in putting names to the bodies.

KING WILLIAM ISLAND, CANADA – HMS Terror, a long-lost ship that vanished while searching for the Northwest Passage, sparking one of the world’s great maritime mysteries, is believed to have been found ...

For more than 175 years, the fate of the men aboard Sir John Franklin’s doomed Arctic expedition has lingered somewhere between history and mystery. Now, advances in DNA science are helping ...

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 ...