British officers and crew members set out in search of the Northwest Passage on HMS "Erebus" and HMS "Terror." None returned ...

A more than 160-year-old Arctic mystery has come to resolution: The HMS Terror, a vessel from a doomed Royal Navy exploration to chart an unnavigated portion of the Northwest Passage, has been ...

A few years ago, along with a bunch of other folks, I became mildly obsessed with the AMC series The Terror, which follows two 19th century British ships attempting to navigate the Northwest Passage.

The expedition’s two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, departed England in May 1845 but never reached the Pacific Ocean via the Arctic. The ships were stranded in the Victoria Strait’s ice in ...

Archaeologists have found hundreds of preserved artefacts within the remnants of the HMS Erebus nearly two centuries after it sank in Arctic Canada. Pistols, sealed bottles of medicine ...

Researchers at the Australian National Maritime Museum said they have found evidence that a shipwreck located in Newport Harbor, Rhode Island, is the remains of the HMS Endeavour, a British Royal ...

"To put it bluntly the Artic convoys were hell on water," says Donald MacKinnon, a fellow HMS Lapwing survivor from Lewis, Scotland, who shared the same life raft as Jess. "The bitterly cold ...

I am fascinated by both Antarctic and Arctic exploration; no where else on Earth wants humans dead quite like our planet's poles, but folks still manage to eek out an existence in both places.

A new DNA analysis has identified the remains of Captain James Fitzjames, a Royal Navy officer who disappeared on a doomed Northwest Passage expedition in Canada more than 175 years ago.

It is a relic of the darkest chapter in the history of British polar exploration, and a symbol of selfless heroism in the most inhospitable of lands. As Captain Henry Kellett and his men scoured ...

Breakthrough evidence likely reveals the final resting place of the HMS Endeavour. Work has been ongoing at the site since the late ‘90s. The team says that samples taken from the ship show that ...