The Franklin Expedition in search of the Canadian northwest passage remains to this day one of the most costly maritime excursions in terms of loss …
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Famous Expeditions and Explorations
These brave pioneers undertook expeditions into uncharted territory to find a new home, to find their fortunes, or simply for the sake of it. They did not all end happily.
Antarctica is a cold and foreboding place where few creatures and people live. Those who do choose to trek to find settlement in that climate of ice …
In the mid-nineteenth century, European explorers and geographers were obsessed with one thing: finding the source of the Nile. But they were not the …
The Great Trek was a perilous exodus of pioneers into the heart of South Africa, looking for a place to call home.