The wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton's legendary Endurance ship was discovered this month. An expedition used coordinates from 1915 and advanced subsea technology to locate it. The Endurance was in ...

More than a century after it sank off the coast of Antarctica, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship HMS Endurance has been located, apparently intact and in good condition. The ship, which sank in ...

The icy extremes of Earth have long beckoned explorers with the promise of discovering uncharted territory. The challenges of reaching such unforgiving destinations stirred excitement in the 19th and ...

The misfortune of the British naval ship HMS Endurance resulted in one of the most famous survival stories of all time. Now, the history of the disaster is being rewritten. Irish polar explorer Sir ...

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