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Shackleton's Endurance found

On 5 March 2022 the Endurance22 expedition found Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance, crushed by Weddell Sea ice in 1915, upright and well preserved about 3,000 m down, a few kilometres from the position her captain Frank Worsley had recorded.

2022 CE · -68.74, -52.33 · status: official

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The wreck still carries her name on the stern. The search used the South African icebreaker Agulhas II and underwater drones; the wreck is a protected monument and was only filmed and scanned. The find closed one of the great polar stories, the same journey that produced the 'fourth man' of South Georgia.

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Sources

  1. BBC News: Endurance, Shackleton's lost ship, is found in Antarctic
  2. Wikipedia: Endurance (1912 ship)
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