Gregory was an officer on British explorer Sir John Franklin's ill-fated expedition to chart the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic. The expedition was a disaster, ending in the deaths of ...

It is the only known photograph of Capt Francis Crozier An original portrait photograph of a famous Arctic explorer, taken shortly before the doomed Franklin expedition, will be auctioned in ...

"Identification of a Senior Officer from Sir John Franklin's Northwest Passage Expedition" by Stenton, Fratpietro and Park ...

The Greely Expedition crew. National Archives. This group photo of the Lady Franklin Bay expedition team was taken in 1881 before departure for the Arctic to gather scientific data. Led by ...

In the murkiness shrouding the wrecks of the Franklin Expedition, the mysteries are endless. How did HMS Erebus and HMS Terror end up where they did in the mid-19th ...

Known as "the man who ate his boots" after being forced to eat the leather parts of clothes when near starvationA pair of snow shoes used by Captain John Franklin (1786-1847) on his expedition to ...