Nature opens the Northwest Passage.

Alberta Report | September 25, 2000| | Copyright

On August 24, a team of researchers aboard the catamaran St. Roch II stopped on the remote Arctic island of Keeuna to visit five graves believed to contain remains of members of the doomed Franklin expedition of 1845. The stopover of the St. Roch II represented a spooky confluence of history; the ship is retracing the 1940-42 double crossing of the Northwest Passage by the original St. Roch, which succeeded where Sir John Franklin had failed. So far, few human beings have ever sailed in the treacherous area. But soon, if a University of Calgary professor is right, such ...

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