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Endurance was the three-masted barquentine in which Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men sailed for the Antarctic on the 1914–1917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. The ship, originally named Polaris , was built at Framnæs shipyard and launched in 1912 from Sandefjord in Norway .
After the Endurance sank, the crew salvaged what they could, with most of their clothing having been already collected. Blackborow, however, had taken the wrong sort of boots and on the crew's journey to Elephant Island via lifeboat, his feet were continuously exposed to the frigid waters of the Southern Ocean for several days.
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 century-old silent footage in "Endurance" has been revamped with a respect for its verisimilitude. I do wish, though, that the movie hadn’t mixed in re-enactments. ... What happened when 4 ...
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 ...
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, is a 1959 book written by Alfred Lansing, about the failure of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition led by Sir Ernest Shackleton, in its attempt to cross the Antarctic continent in 1914.