Canada to search for Arctic explorer's ships
August 16, 2008 By ROB GILLIES , Associated Press Writer
In this photo released by the National Archives of Canada, Skulls of members of the Franklin Expedition, discovered and buried by William Skinner and Paddy Gibson in 1945, at King William Island, N.W.T. (now Nunavut), are shown in this photo from the National Archives of Canada Collections. More than 160 years after Sir John Franklin's doomed expedition vanished in the ice of the fabled Northwest Passage, the federal government is backing a search for the Holy Grail of the High Arctic. (AP Photo/National Archives of Canada via The Canadian Press)
(AP) -- For more than 160 years, the fate of British explorer Sir John Franklin and his men has remained locked in the frozen Arctic, but warming temperatures are threatening to change that.
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