Exploration
Sir John Ross's Victory
A private steamer, a gin distiller's money and four winters on Boothia: how Ross's crew lost their ship yet came home with a new map.
3 min readExploration History
The expeditions that mapped the ice and the oceans: what happened, what was found and why it still matters. Every guide lists the sources it was checked against; the expedition archive keeps the dispatches first published on this domain.
Exploration
Franklin Expedition Explained
In 1845 two Royal Navy ships sailed for the Northwest Passage and never came home; this is what the evidence now tells us.
3 min read
Exploration
First Atlantic Rowing Crossing
Two Norwegian-American fishermen crossed the Atlantic under oars in 1896, seventy years before ocean rowing became a sport.
2 min readFrom the expedition archive
All expeditions
Expedition archive
Arctic Quest 1832
The 2004 return to Boothia with a team from the Royal Navy and Royal Marines, searching for the remains of the Victory.
15 dispatches
Expedition archive
Kite Quest 200
The 2005 attempt to cross the North Atlantic from Newfoundland in a kite-powered boat, through the hurricane season.
23 dispatches
Expedition archive
Arctic Quest 1831
A solo folding-kayak journey in the high Arctic in 2003, following the route of Sir John Ross to the magnetic north pole.
8 dispatchesElsewhere in the magazine
