He points out that the Northwest Passage has several geographic disadvantages ... Getty Images All members of Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition perished, and were depicted in a number of ...
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 ...
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 ...
A modern-day Canadian Arctic search party looking for the lost ships of the famed and doomed 1846 Sir John Franklin Northwest Passage expedition retreated from menacing sea ice in September and ...