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Find out more about the history of Franklin's fatal voyage, and the continuing work to explore the Erebus and Terror shipwrecks

Discover the remarkable journey Shackleton undertook to save his crew from death.

We know a lot about Sir John Franklin. By the time he led the expedition to the Arctic in 1845, he was a household name, a naval hero and one of the Navy's leading magnetic scientists. But what of the other 128 men who died on this fatal expedition? What do we know about them? Jeremy Michell investigates the life of the ship's cook, John Diggle.

Follow the timeline of the new polar research ship, from naming and construction to sea trials and beyond

For over 300 years explorers risked their lives to search the Arctic for a route between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans

Visit the historic Prime Meridian of the World at the Royal Observatory Greenwich