VISIONS OF THE NORTH

Faithful readers of this blog will recall, perhaps, my posting from back in February about a previously unknown Japanese adventurer, Yusuke...

The Arctic has spurred the creativity of artists for centuries, marking as it does the border between the known and the unknown, the visibl...

To riff on an old American joke, it turns out that it may not be Grant in that tomb. According to a forensic facial reconstruction, the ske...

The statue of Sir John Franklin in Hobart, Tasmania, has doubtless seen its share of strange things, but those who visit in the next few wee...

Until today, I had not heard the name Yusuke Kakuhata mentioned in the context of the Franklin expedition. His plan sounds almost absurd in ...

Although best known for his final, fatal voyage of 1845, Sir John Franklin's initial fame rested upon the near-disaster of his expeditio...

Looking for information relating to Arctic history in Canada has always been a bit of a task; aside from Library & Archives Canada , ma...

What are the odds that this tiny rock, which I picked up at random from the gravel at Beechey Island, would happen to be shaped almost exact...

Longtime readers of this blog know that I rarely editorialize -- I know that those with an interest in the history of polar exploration come...

To the annals of dramas inspired by the plight of Sir John Franklin's men in the last stages of their fatal Arctic expedition -- a noble...

Following our notice of NIMROD, there's one other annual publication that's often a treasure trove for Franklinites and other Arctic...