VISIONS OF THE NORTH

Every government has its bureaucracy, and to rail against them collectively would be absurd. All the same, for those of us who celebrated th...

It's that time of year again when -- despite what has been for the most part a more open, accessible, and timely release of materials fr...

Over the years, as readers may imagine, I've been in touch with all kinds of people who've had ideas about searching for traces of S...

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...