Would you believe another discovery of Franklin relics?

At first I was sceptical. But the more I looked at it, the more interested I became. A British adventurer, a TV-show-host named Bear Grylls, reports happening upon a possible Franklin site, complete with graves, on a tiny island in Wellington Strait, northeast of King William Island. That story turned up in the U.K. in…

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Once more into the Northwest Passage

This one, which turned up in the National Post, finds our hero sailing in the High Arctic with Adventure Canada. You gotta love the podcast, which becomes accessible through the link . . . . High Arctic: Travelling to the top of the world So this was the view that greeted explorer Samuel Hearne in…

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