The expedition was led by Sir John Franklin, an experienced explorer. His goal was to find the Northwest Passage, a shortcut through the Canadian Arctic connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

If you add a few kilometers at either end of a well-traveled tourist route, does that make it an original traverse? One UK ...

Carney’s proposed Arctic strategy reflects his fixation on green policies rather than concrete security needs.

Under the command of Sir John Franklin, the two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, left England in 1845 but became icebound ...

In April 1848, 105 men set out into the frozen heart of the Canadian Arctic. Abandoning their ships ... These last members of Sir John Franklin’s doomed 129-man expedition to map the Northwest Passage ...

James McCorkindale, Lee Graham and Arctic expedition leader Kasper Jæger are facing -40C temperatures, 186 miles (300km) of sparse terrain, polar bears, sea ice and frozen glaciers, along with a ...

There's still no word on whether the Barneo camp near the North Pole will open, but elsewhere in the Arctic, several ...

As President Trump talks about U.S. dominance of the Arctic, Canada says it will spend billions to defend the region, ...

Amid a warming climate and disappearing traditional knowledge, Inuit communities in the Canadian Arctic are grappling ... She has made over 55 expeditions to the these regions as a photographer ...

The small town of Churchill, located on the western shores of Hudson Bay in Manitoba, is set to become a major destination ...