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An item in the Royal Society's Miscellaneous Correspondence series is part of a decade-long effort to trace a lost Arctic expedition, as Isabel Lauterjung explains.

How did a party of explorers come to spend four winters trapped in the Arctic ice - and how did they survive? Jon Bushell tells their gripping tale.

Frankie Chappell looks at the maps produced by explorers and whalers such as William Scoresby FRS, and compares them with the ways in which indigenous inhabitants recorded their lands.

Read more about Edward Sabine’s first-hand account of a controversial 1818 voyage towards the North Pole.