Explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship found Last week archeologists discovered the wreck of Endurance, the vessel from Ernest Shackleton's fabled Antarctic expedition of over a century ago, nearly two miles below the surface of the icy Weddell Sea. Jane Pauley reports....
In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton started on anexpeditionto the South Pole. He wanted to walk across Antarctica, but an accident happened. The ship got stuck in the sea ice, and it couldn’t move. When the ice started tomeltin spring, it crushed the ship. Shackleton and his crew had to ...
One of thegreatest survival stories ever recorded has got to be the story of Ernest Shackleton’s Trans-Antarctic Expedition, and the loss of his ship the Endurance when it was crushed in pack ice and sank in 1915. Today we learned that 107 years after the ship was lost to the sea, a...
The wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance has been found off the coast of Antarctica. 欧内斯特·沙克尔顿爵士的“坚忍”号船的残骸在南极洲海岸被发现。 Dr John Shears, the expedition leader, said: "The Endurance22 ...
On August 1, 1914, Shackleton embarked on his third South Pole expedition, this time aboard the ship Endurance, with 27 other crewmen, 69 sled dogs, and a cat named Mrs. Chippy. By the fall, the ship had sailed from London to South Georgia, an island in the southern Atlanti...
He later died while setting out on another Antarctic expedition. WATCH: Ernest Shackleton’s lost ice ship found! Watch the full episode of Shackleton’s Endurance: The Lost Ice Ship Found online now. More From BiographyThe Historic Legacy of Other Pope Leos | Ep04 Refresh the page to ...
Image:Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship which has not been seen since it was crushed by the ice and sank Image:The discovery has been called a 'milestone of polar history' Dr John Shears, the expedition leader, said: "The Endurance22 expedition has reached its goal. We have made...
The shipwreck has now been found "intact" in the Labrador Sea off the coast of Newfoundland, said the Shackleton Quest Expedition, led by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. Image:Polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton. Pic: PA The schooner-rigged steamship is on the sea floor...
The expedition to find the ship comes 100 years after Shackleton’s death in 1922. British historian and broadcaster Dan Snow, who accompanied the expedition, tweeted that Endurance was found on Saturday, “100 years to the day since Shackleton was buried.” ...
Endurance departed from the UK in 1914 and reached Antarctica’s McMurdo Sound the following year on a journey called the the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. However, due to the extreme conditions, the ship got stuck amid thick, impenetrable ice in the Weddell Sea. The 28 men on board...