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Researchers have discovered the remarkably well-preserved wreck of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship, Endurance, in 10,000 feet of icy water, a century after it was swallowed up by Antarctic ...
The final resting place of Endurance would remain a mystery for nearly 107 years, until the wreckage was discovered on 5 March 2022. [64] Path of Endurance's drift and the escape route to Elephant Island. The ice was not drifting fast enough to be noticeable, although by late November the speed was up to seven miles (11 km) a day. [65]
The wreck of Ernest Shackleton’s ship “Endurance” has been found 107 years after it sank off the coast of Antarctica and National Geographic has been swift to commission a documentary on the ...
The fabled expedition of Ernest Shackleton, the Anglo-Irish explorer who led 27 men on a voyage to Antarctica in 1914 aboard the three-masted barquentine schooner Endurance, only to see his ship ...
The project to find the so-called "unreachable" Endurance began in a South Kensington coffee bar in August 2012. [2] Ten years later, in March 2022, she was found [3] 3,000 meters beneath the perennial ice of the Weddell Sea [4] or, what Shackleton called "the worst portion of the worst sea on earth."
While Shackleton led the expedition, Captain Frank Worsley commanded the Endurance [122] and Captain Aeneas Mackintosh the Aurora. [123] On the Endurance, the second-in-command was the experienced explorer Frank Wild, [124] and the first officer was Lionel Greenstreet. [125] The meteorologist was Leonard Hussey, [126] who was also an able banjo ...
As well as sails, Endurance had a 350 hp (260 kW) coal-fired steam engine, making the ship capable of speeds up to 10.2 kn (18.9 km/h; 11.7 mph). [3] At the time of her launch in 1912 Endurance was arguably the strongest wooden ship ever built with the possible exception of Fram, the vessel used by Fridtjof Nansen and later by Roald Amundsen ...
Launching the James Caird from the shore of Elephant Island, 24 April 1916. The voyage of the James Caird was a journey of 1,300 kilometres (800 mi) from Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands through the Southern Ocean to South Georgia, undertaken by Sir Ernest Shackleton and five companions to obtain rescue for the main body of the stranded Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914 ...