The mysterious fate of Captain John Franklin's doomed 1845 voyage into the Arctic to find a way through the Northwest Passage has captured imaginations for over a century and a half. A recent ...

Scientists at the University of Waterloo have identified one of the doomed crew members of Captain Sir John S. Franklin‘s 1846 Arctic expedition to cross the Northwest Passage. According to a recent ...

It’s been nearly two centuries since HMS Erebus sank, but the ship remains a font of historic treasures. Underwater archeologists recovered 275 rare artifacts from the storied wreck in the Canadian ...

When Captain James Fitzjames departed the United Kingdom in 1845 on the third Franklin Northwest Passage expedition to the Arctic, he and his crew didn’t know the harrowing fate ahead of them. Their ...

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In the summer of 2023, Parks Canada’s underwater archaeology team plunged into a new season of exploration in the icy waters of Nunavut. Their focus: the legendary shipwrecks of HMS Erebus and HMS ...

The cannibalised skeletal remains of a member of the doomed 1845 British Arctic expedition have been identified as that of Captain James Fitzjames. Three years later, after their ships were trapped in ...

The finds include a leather folio with an accompanying feather quill pen. Parks Canada Underwater Archaeologist Jonathan Moore observes a washing basin and an officer's bed place on the lower deck of ...

Captain James Fitzjames served as captain of the HMS Erebus, but his rank didn't prevent his men from eating his remains in a desperate bid to survive. Reading time: Reading time 2 minutes On May 19, ...

The ROV in the diving hole at the Erebus site in April. Aimie Néron, Parks Canada Later in September, archaeological research operations began. The team completed 56 individual dives over the course ...