VISIONS OF THE NORTH

It may well have been the most ambitious single Franklin search of all time, and -- although its results were modest -- we now know it ca...

Many readers have noticed my hiatus here at Visions of the North , with only one new post since October of last year. The reason for th...

Sometimes it happens that the Internet, derided by some as a great time-waster, enables the sort of serendipity that would never otherwis...

Appearing, as fate would have it, just a few weeks before McClintock's news of the fate of Franklin reached England, " The Last ...

Having enjoyed the sometimes fanciful game of imagining how Arctic explorers might look on banknotes, it occurred to me that perhaps, in ...

In researching the history of Sir John Franklin's last expedition and its aftermath, there have from time to time been a number of su...

Some time ago, under the title " The Sword of a Great Officer ," I posted an image of the hilt of sword that had been presented...

Image courtesy of Doreen Larsen Riedel Even before he arrived on the shores of King William, he’d already been awarded the Gold Medal o...

I had originally planned to be posting on my blog this fall about the new finds from HMS "Erebus" that I'd hoped would be a...

One of the more remarkable finds of the earlier dives upon HMS "Erebus" was a wooden element, found near the stern (where the...

With the approach of the 2015 dive season, it won't be long before Ryan Harris, Marc-André Bernier, and the rest of the Parks Canada ...