Ernest Shackleton's lost ship Endurance was crushed by ice and sank in 1915.
One of history's most famous shipwrecks has been found off the coast of Antarctica. Credit: The Falklands Maritime Heritage TrustEndurance, the lost ship of renowned polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, has been located more than a century after it sank off the coast of Antarctica.
The wooden vessel was found in "a brilliant state of preservation," Mensun Bound, the expedition’s exploration director, said in a statement. After the ship sank, the crew was forced to make their way by sea to the uninhabited Elephant Island, according to the account by National Geographic. Shackleton and five men then set off in a lifeboat to seek help from a whaling station in South Georgia, more than 800 miles away.
The expedition to locate the lost shipwreck, which for over 100 years had remained inaccessible, began on Feb. 5 when the South African icebreaker Agulhas II set sail from Cape Town.
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