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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Emma Loffhagen

Endurance: Who was Ernest Shackleton, what is the history of the ship and why is the discovery so important?

Scientists have found one of the greatest ever undiscovered shipwrecks after it sank in the Antarctic 107 years ago, in what has been labelled the “world’s most challenging shipwreck search”.

The Endurance, the lost vessel of Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, was found by scientists at the weekend, 3,008 metres below the surface of the Weddell Sea.

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