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A large floe was swept against the Endurance ' s port bow and then gripped that side of the ship against the built-up ice and snow on her starboard beam. The ship's structure groaned and wracked under the strain. Carpenter Harry McNish noted that the solid oak beams supporting the upper deck were being visibly bent "like a piece of cane".
Legendary Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance sank more ... "No one's ever found a wooden shipwreck 3,000 metres down in one of the most remote places on earth underneath the ice ...
The book chronicles Bound's quest to find the wreck of the Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, which succumbed to the ice of Antarctica in 1915. [1] Each chapter of the book features a day-by-day recount, similar to a diary. Weaving together his voyages with Shackleton's, Bound's book also includes stories of Shackleton and his crew.
The book details the almost two-year struggle for survival endured by the twenty-eight man crew of the exploration ship Endurance. The ship was beset and eventually crushed by ice floes in the Weddell Sea, leaving the men stranded on the pack ice. All in all, the crew drifted on a series of ice floes for just over a year, facing a second ...
The shipwreck is 3,000 metres below sea level in a ‘very stable’ condition. Shackleton’s ship Endurance ‘will be accessible’ despite remaining under sea Skip to main content
In 1915, the ship commissioned by Sir Ernest Shackleton, who hailed from Ireland, was cornered within dense pack ice in the Weddell Sea, forcing the 28-member crew to abandon the En
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 ...
Upload another image HSM-2 Fukushima's Rock Cairn Rock cairn and plaques at Syowa Station in memory of Shin Fukushima, a member of the 4th Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition, who died in October 1960 while performing official duties. The cairn was erected on 11 January 1961, by his colleagues. Some of his ashes repose in the cairn. (1972) Rec VII-9 69°00′00″S 39°35′00″E ...