Famed shipwreck of Ernest Shackleton's Endurance found off Antarctica after more than a century
One of the world's most storied shipwrecks, Ernest Shackleton's Endurance, has been discovered off the coast of Antarctica more than a century after its sinking, explorers announced Wednesday.
"This is by far the finest wooden shipwreck I have ever seen. It is upright, well proud of the seabed, intact, and in a brilliant state of preservation. You can even see 'Endurance' arced across the stern," he said in a statement.with a South African icebreaker, hoping to find the Endurance before the end of the Southern Hemisphere summer.
The voyage became legendary due to the miraculous escape Shackleton and his crew made on foot and in boats.Officers and crew of the 'Endurance' - the shore party group pose under the bow of the 'Endurance' at Weddell Sea Base during the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-17, led by Ernest Shackleton.They then launched lifeboats to Elephant Island and then South Georgia Island, a British overseas territory that lies around 870 miles east of the Falkland Islands.
The ship's wooden timbers, while damaged from the crush of ice that sank in, still hold together. Sea anemones, sponges and other small ocean life made homes on the wreckage but didn't appear to have damaged it.
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