This article is over 5 years old and may contain outdated information.

History

Timelapse from the Victoria Strait Expedition

  • Oct 02, 2014
  • 101 words
  • 1 minutes
Expand Image
Advertisement

As you read news stories detailing the find of one of the lost Franklin Expedition ships in the Arctic, it may be difficult to picture what it would be like to be on the search. This timelapse video, taken by Joshua R. Thienpont, a W. Garfield Weston Postdoctoral Fellow, provides a glimpse of what passengers on board One Ocean Expeditions’ Voyager saw as they searched the Arctic during this summer’s Victoria Strait Expedition.

For all the latest news, visit the Canadian Geographic‘s Franklin Expedition section of our website.

Advertisement

Are you passionate about Canadian geography?

You can support Canadian Geographic in 3 ways:

Related Content

Canadian Hydrographic Survey launch, CSL Gannett

History

2014 Victoria Strait Expedition

This year's search is about much more than underwater archaeology. The Victoria Strait Expedition will contribute to northern science and communities.

  • 1205 words
  • 5 minutes
The Royal Canadian Geographical Society’s 2014 Victoria Strait Expedition flag flies above the One Ocean Voyager

History

Victoria Strait Expedition begins

First official day of the 2014 search for Sir John Franklin’s lost ships

  • 1092 words
  • 5 minutes
Map of Churchill Harbour by Jens Munk, 1624

Exploration

Jens Munk: An expedition ahead of its time

Two hundred years before Franklin and 300 years before Amundsen, a daring Dane came closer to finding the Northwest Passage than anyone had before

  • 2409 words
  • 10 minutes
CAE ships anchored at Bernard Harbour, Nunavut, in 1914

Exploration

Canada’s unsung expedition

A century after the start of the thrilling expedition that strengthened claims to Canadian sovereignty in the Arctic, the first Canadian Arctic Expedition remains a largely unknown part of the country’s history

  • 1956 words
  • 8 minutes