It features Tom Gross, who has been scouring King William Island for a burial vault that he believes holds Franklin’s body, and possibly logbooks or documents. With Jacob Keanik, an Inuk who lives on ...

near King William Island two winters earlier, the crew had a desperate plan: head south to the Canadian mainland, and cross hundreds of miles to the nearest Western settlement. None would survive.

Fitzjames was part of an expedition led by Sir ... became the commander of HMS Erebus once Franklin died, but his ship became ...

The only written record ever found of the disastrous Franklin Northwest Passage expedition of 1845-1848 ... erected on the western shore of King William Island, near where Franklin's ships had ...

In 1845, the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror took off from England on an expedition to the Arctic. The expedition was led by Sir ...

In the murkiness shrouding the wrecks of the Franklin Expedition, the mysteries ... his men after the ships were beset in ice off King William Island in 1846 and deserted two years later ...