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Researchers Identify Four Franklin Arctic Expedition Crew Members Using DNA
4+ hour, 25+ min ago (753+ words) Researchers have identified four additional crew members from Sir John Franklin doomed Arctic expedition through DNA analysis, around 180 years after the journey ended in disaster. The new research, shedding light on one of history's most infamous Arctic tragedies, was led…...
Experts identify victims from one of history's most 'catastrophic' Arctic disasters
6+ hour, 20+ min ago (960+ words) Texas archaeologists Arlen Chase and Diane Chase recently uncovered the 4th-century tomb of Te' K'ab Chaak, the earliest ruler of Caracol, a major Mayan city in Belize. (Source: Caracol Archaeological Project; University of Houston) Around 180 years after Sir John Franklin's…...
Nearly 200 years later, DNA links four dead sailors to the doomed Franklin Arctic expedition
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (490+ words) The breakthrough makes one of history's most haunting exploration stories far more personal. Nearly two centuries after the Franklin Expedition vanished in the Canadian Arctic, researchers have finally put names to four sets of remains tied to the doomed voyage....
Today in History May 31 | 1578, Martin Frobisher, Northwest Passage, Canadian Arctic, & Fool's Gold
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (424+ words) On this day in 1578, 15 ships and 400 men set sail from England to the Canadian Arctic. They would return months later believing they'd found treasure: thousands of tons of gold. Their leader, English mariner Martin Frobisher, had spent most of his…...
Largest Man-Made Islands Ever Constructed
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (1621+ words) By Jaycee Gudoy | Published 15 seconds ago The ocean has always been humanity's most formidable frontier, yet we keep finding ways to claim it. Building islands from nothing but ambition and raw materials represents one of our most audacious engineering feats....
Remains of lost arctic explorers identified with DNA, nearly two centuries later
5+ day, 21+ hour ago (56+ words) New research shines a light on the lost Franklin Expedition, a 19th century voyage to the Canadian Arctic gone awry. Remains of lost arctic explorers identified with DNA, nearly two centuries later New research shines a light on the lost Franklin…...
New DNA analysis identifies more members of the ill-fated Franklin expedition
6+ day, 1+ hour ago (1060+ words) The 1845 Franklin Northwest Passage expedition was an unprecedented disaster in the history of British polar exploration, with the loss of all 129 officers and crew and the discovery ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror. The catastrophe has been the subject of…...
How a European island ended up in Richibucto Harbour | CBC News
6+ day, 5+ hour ago (501+ words) It turns out you don't need to leave New Brunswick to experience a European vacation, but you may have to share your accommodations with a flock of cormorants. The Ballast Heaps are two small man-made islands in Richibucto Harbour. The…...
Golden Country: A spot near Yale has connections to an Arctic tragedy | The Ashcroft-Cache Creek Journal
1+ week, 1+ day ago (253+ words) Published 5: 00 am Friday, May 22, 2026 Lady Franklin Rock in the Fraser River above Yale pictured c. 1882, some 20 years after it was visited by, and named after, Lady Jane Franklin, widow of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin. Lady Jane (17911875) is a woman who…...
Canada, Denmark, and the Arctic's Strangest Territorial Dispute The Whisky War
1+ week, 1+ day ago (902+ words) World Atlas Two NATO founding members spent nearly half a century in a territorial dispute over a 1. 3-square-kilometer barren rock in the High Arctic. They marked each new claim by planting their respective flag on the island and leaving a…...