In 1845, the HMS Erebus and the HMS Terror departed from England under the command of Sir John Franklin. The seasoned polar explorer and his crew of 128 other men ...

Indeed, during his two years studying arctic survival skills from the Netsilik tribe of Inuit on King William Island, polar explorer Roald Amundsen became an expert igloo builder, even though at ...

It was found in a stone cairn erected on the western shore of King William Island, near where Franklin's ships had become irretrievably beset in pack ice in 1846. Sealed inside a small tin ...

We are nearing Gjoa Haven on King William Island. The island's Victory Point is where John Franklin's men left their last note before stumbling on through the snow, eventually dying a cold and ...