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Early in 1915 Endurance became trapped in the ice and ten. In February 2022 a major international scientific expedition will explore one of the coldest harshest and most remote locations in the world in a quest to find the EnduranceUsing underwater robots helicopters and other state-of-the-art technology the Endurance22 expedition aims to be the first to locate and survey Sir Ernest Shackletons lost ship which sank in the.

Endurance Trapped In Ice Antarctic Sailing Antarctica

All of her crew survived.

. A team of explorers is currently attempting to locate the wreck of Sir Ernest Shackletons Endurance on what would have been the famous Irish explorers 148th birthday. Searching for the greatest shipwreck. Endurance sailed from Plymouth.

Three years later she was crushed by pack ice and sank in the Weddell Sea off Antarctica. Shackletons Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition lasted from 1914 to 1917. Oil painting by George Cummings Shackletons Endurance.

Endurance was the three-masted barquentine in which Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men and one cat sailed for the Antarctic on the 19141917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic ExpeditionShe was launched in 1912 from Sandefjord in Norway. Lloyds of London had insured her for 15000 which was the first time in history a ship had been insured into the waters of the Antarctic such was their confidence in the voyage and quality of the ship. 04022022 It is one of the most unreachable shipwrecks in the world.

A research vessel left Cape. Endurance set sail from Grytviken South Georgia on 5 December 1914. Shackleton soon rechristened her Endurance after the Shackleton family motto which was Fortitudine vincimus By endurance we conquer.

In 1914 Shackleton made his third trip to the Antarctic with the ship Endurance planning to cross Antarctica via the South Pole. It was meant to make the first land crossing of Antarctica but Endurance became trapped and then lost in that cruel sea. We know with good accuracy where Sir Ernest Shackletons Endurance vessel ended up after sinking more than 100 years ago.

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