Parry’s second voyage, 1821–22
Franklin’s first North American expedition with Back and Richardson, 1818–22
The unexplored Arctic coastline, 1821
Franklin’s second expedition with Back and Richardson, 1825–27
Parry’s last voyage: toward the Pole, 1827
John Ross and James Clark Ross, 1829–33
George Back explores the Great Fish River, 1833–34
Dease and Simpson’s explorations, 1837–39
Franklin’s proposed route from Cape Walker, 1845
John Rae crosses Melville Peninsula, 1846–47
James Clark Ross’s fruitless search for Franklin, 1848–49
Area of the Franklin search, 1850–51
Kennedy and Bellot search for Franklin, 1851–52
McClure rounds the tip of Alaska, 1850
McClure finds a North West Passage, 1850–54
Belcher’s search for Franklin, 1852–54
Kane’s “search” for Franklin and the Pole, 1853–55
John Rae gets the first news of Franklin’s fate, 1854
Southward route of Kane’s defectors, autumn, 1854
Kane’s retreat from Rensselaer Harbor, 1855
Collinson’s expedition, 1851–54
M’Clintock’s expedition to King William Island, 1857–59
Franklin’s last expedition, 1845–47
The known and unknown Arctic before and after the search
Hall’s first expedition: Frobisher Bay, 1860–61
Area of Hayes’s explorations, 1860–61
Hall’s second expedition, 1864–69
Hall sails north to his death, 1871; Tyson drifts south on an ice floe, 1872–73
Greely at Fort Conger, 1881–83
Area of the Greely relief attempts, 1882–84
Nansen’s Arctic drift and polar attempt, 1893–96
Andrée’s ill-fated balloon expedition, 1897
Peary’s two expeditions across Greenland, 1892 and 1895
Peary’s Farthest North in 1902
Amundsen navigates the North West Passage, 1903–06
Amundsen’s overland trek to reach the telegraph at Eagle, Alaska in the late fall of 1905
Peary’s exploration of Ellesmere Island, June 1906
Peary’s polar records, 1906 and 1909
Cook’s route from Anoatok to Axel Heiberg and return, 1908–09