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. While ...

A team of researchers from the University of Waterloo say they have definitively identified the remains of four sailors belonging to the doomed Franklin Expedition — and settled a debate more than a ...

The first known victim of cannibalism from the British Royal Navy's doomed Franklin expedition has been identified as Captain James Fitzjames. The officer is the second member of the ill-fated 1845 ...

This week Code Switch digs into The Ministry of Time, a new book that author Kailene Bradley describes as a romance about imperialism. It focuses on real-life colonizer Graham Gore, who was a ...