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1848: John Richardson and John Rae lead the Rae–Richardson Arctic expedition and search overland for Franklin's lost expedition; 1849: Henry Kellett discovers Herald Island searching for Franklin's lost expedition; 1850–1854: McClure Arctic expedition led by Robert McClure, a British search for the members of Franklin's lost expedition
Franklin's lost expedition was a failed British voyage of Arctic exploration led by Captain Sir John Franklin that departed England in 1845 aboard two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and was assigned to traverse the last unnavigated sections of the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic and to record magnetic data to help determine whether ...
British expedition to become the first to reach the geographical South Pole. Rusanov expedition: Vladimir Rusanov: 1913 Kara Sea (Arctic) Russian naval expedition to the Arctic to find the Northern Sea Route. Fawcett expedition: Percy Fawcett: 1925 Dead Horse Camp (Brazil) British archaeological expedition to the Amazon to locate the "Lost City ...
The Ziegler expedition. The Ziegler polar expedition of 1903–1905, also known as the Fiala expedition, [1] [2] was a failed attempt to reach the North Pole.The expedition party remained stranded north of the Arctic Circle for two years before being rescued, yet all but one of its members survived.
The doomed expedition has inspired books and dramas such as “The Terror,” a 2018 television series based on Dan Simmons’ 2007 novel of the same name. “It lives in the imagination, as much ...
The Arctic Grail: The Quest for the North West Passage and the North Pole. New York: Viking Press. ISBN 9780670824915. Guttridge, L. F. (2000). Ghosts of Cape Sabine: The Harrowing True Story of the Greely Expedition. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. ISBN 9780399145896. Levy, Buddy (2019). Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar ...
The exposed film for this photograph and others from the failed 1897 expedition was recovered in 1930. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897 was a failed Swedish effort to reach the North Pole, resulting in the deaths of all three expedition members, S. A. Andrée, Knut Frænkel, and Nils Strindberg.
It may be best known for causing havoc to European air travel when it erupted in 2010, but this notorious glacier provides an awe-inspiring – yet manageable – day of hiking, finds Annabel Grossman