Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On an island in the South Atlantic, a restoration project is underway to rescue a crumbling piece of exploration history. The ...

National Geographic gives an exclusive look at the wreck of Endurance, which has not been seen since it sank in 1915. Wednesday, March 9, 2022 More than a century after it sank off the coast of ...

Over a century after it sank to the depths of the Weddell Sea off the coast of Antarctica, the lost ship of Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton, has been found. In 1915 the Endurance was trapped by ...

The 'Endurance' leaning to one side, during the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-17, led by Sir Ernest Shackleton. “Comparison with other early wooden polar ships is not favourable for ...

Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, Endurance, was crushed by Antarctic sea ice and sank in November 1915. Emblematic of the heroic age of Antarctic exploration, it is widely considered the strongest polar ...

"She was doomed, no ship built by human hands could have withstood the strain."When polar explorer Ernest Shackleton wrote this journal entry on October 27, 1915, his dreams of reaching Antarctica had ...

A new memorial stone and plaque have been placed at the grave of Captain John King Davis, one of the mostly highly decorated ...

Captain John King Davis was one of Australia's greatest Antarctic explorers, but for decades, his final resting place was an unmarked grave in Melbourne. Today, that will change.

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