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On 14 February, an open channel of water opened up 0.25 mi (0.40 km) ahead of the ship and dawn showed the Endurance was afloat in a pool of soft, young ice no more than 2 ft (0.61 m) thick, but the pool was surrounded by solid pack ice of 12–18 ft (3.7–5.5 m) in thickness, blocking the path to the open lead. A day's continual work by the ...
Legendary Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance sank more than a century ago and its wreck lay undiscovered at the bottom of the Weddell Sea until March 2022.. Now, the team behind ...
Mirny Station, Antarctica 1823 Shipwreck: 7 Jenny [10] Drake Passage, Southern Ocean Most likely a legend 1958 Aircraft: 7 Cape Hallett Bay plane crash [11] Cape Hallett Bay, Antarctica 6 survivors 1966 Aircraft: 6 Ross Ice Shelf plane crash [12] Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica 1986 Aircraft: 6 Philippi Glacier plane crash [13] Philippi Glacier ...
The ship arrived at McMurdo Sound on 29 January, but was stopped by ice 16 miles (26 km) north of Discovery ' s old base at Hut Point. [74] After considerable weather delays, a base was eventually established at Cape Royds, [75] about 24 miles (39 km) north of Hut Point. The party was in high spirits, despite the difficult conditions ...
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 ...
Which was last seen in 1915 by Shackleton and his crew as it got crushed by ice and sank in Antarctica's Weddell Sea. At which point Shackleton, like many a Saab owner, had to start walking.
Ship name Deaths 2007 Explorer: 0 1991 Finnpolaris: 0 1977 William Carson: 0 1959 Hans Hedtoft: 95 (all) 1923 Le Raymound: 2+ 1912 Titanic: 1496 1901 Islander: 40 1897 Vaillant [2] [3] 78 1894 Rose: 12 1893 Horn Head: 25 (all) [4] 1887 Susan: 6 1882 Western Belle: 13 1880 Edith Troop: 25 1875 Vicksburg: 42 1861 Canadian: 35 1857 John Gilpin: 0 ...
ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland (AP) — The wreck of the last ship belonging to Sir Ernest Shackleton, a famed Irish explorer of Antarctica, has been found off the coast of Labrador in Canada, 62 years ...