![]() ![]() ![]() The ship then drifted for a little under a year before it was overtaken by the ice. ![]() The Endurance got stuck, so Shackleton and over two dozen men abandoned it. Unfortunately, they were met with solid, impassable ice around 100 miles from their destination. In 1915, his crew arrived in Antarctica’s McMurdo Sound during the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. Shackleton explored the South Pole on four separate occasions. The 2022 expedition found the ship approximately four miles south of the spot in which its captain and navigator Frank Worsley last placed it, according to the New York Times.Ĭredit: Endurance22 Via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Plus, it remained undiscovered in one of the world’s iciest oceans for over a century. This ship has historical significance because it’s connected to an incredible tale of survival. In footage of the Endurance, you can even read the ship’s name on the stern above a five-pointed star. The three-masted ship was positioned upright as opposed to on its side and in a “brilliant state of preservation,” commented Mensun Bound, the director of the discovery team. Even more remarkably, it was found in fairly good condition!Ī crew from the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust and History Hit found the 144-foot ship, which sunk nearly 10,000 feet down in the Weddell Sea, which is part of the Antarctic Ocean, according to CNN. Anglo-Irish explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship HMS Endurance was rediscovered in 2022 more than 100 years after it sank in the depths of the Antarctic Ocean in 1915. ![]()
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