VISIONS OF THE NORTH

Anne Keenleyside, Margaret Bertulli, and Barry Ranford (w. camera), 1993 As I described in my last post, the bones brought back for stu...

Paddy Gibson and Inuit, Richardson Island, Coronation Gulf, Sept. 1930 We've heard a lot in the press lately about who deserves -- ...

After the jubilation so many of us who've followed, or been a part of, the search for Sir John Franklin's ships, felt at the 201...

At the conclusion of several seasons of conducting a gruelling magnetometer survey over the ice of Wilmot and Crompton Bay -- a search wh...

Since my post about Charles Francis Hall and the sculptress Vinnie Ream, I've been fortunate to be able to obtain a copy of the biogr...

From Chauncey Loomis's classic Weird and Tragic Shores , to later and lesser tomes such as Bruce Henderson's Fatal North or Ric...

Over the years, numerous Franklin experts, from R.J. Cyriax to A.G.E. Jones to William Battersby, Glenn M. Stein, and myself, have ponder...

Image courtesy The Polar Record Of all the many different kinds of forensic studies that have been done of the remains of Franklin...

After waiting many weeks for news of the results of the ice-dive last month to HMS "Erebus," those of us with a longstanding in...

In the decades during and immediately after the search for Franklin and the discovery of the final record at Victory Point, there were ma...

Over the years, there  have been a number of documentaries that have covered some aspect of the Franklin expedition: the NOVA/ITN Factu...