VISIONS OF THE NORTH

Photo by Russell Potter © 2008 One hundred and thirty-eight years ago today, in her home in the town of Groton, Connecticut, Tookoolito...

University of Glasgow, Special Collections Last week, I blogged about the Talbotype of Lieutenant John Irving, which surfaced in the co...

Image courtesy City of Edinburgh Council – Libraries Thanks to a posting by Stuart Tedham over on the Remembering the Franklin Expedit...

"Eothen" Log (courtesy New Bedford Whaling Museum) When last I wrote, I'd held out hope that the log book of the whaleshi...

Circular Cairn at Erebus Bay (photo courtesy Tom Gross) I saw the headline a few days after the discovery of HMS "Erebus" -- ...

Picking up on our story: On his arrival in the Arctic in 1878, Frederick Schwatka  was unable to find any Netsilik who answered to Thomas...

Everyone knows something about the expedition led by Frederick Schwatka to find reported documents left behind by Sir John Franklin's...

The talk about the possibility of recovering papers and logbooks from the wreck of HMS "Erebus" brings to mind the persistent hop...

It was -- and is -- a storied vessel. Her Majesty's Ship "Erebus," a 372-ton bomb ketch, designed by Sir Henry Peake, con...

Image © Parks Canada 2014 Upon its arrival in Britain in 1856, the HMS "Resolute" -- a ship that had searched for Sir John Fr...

With all the celebration which has quite rightly attended the extraordinary discovery of one of Sir John Franklin's ships by the Vict...