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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Maryam Zakir-Hussain

Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance found 107 years after it sank in Antarctic

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The wreck of Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s famous ship, has been found off the coast of Antarctica more than a century after it sank.

The whereabouts of the wooden ship, which disappeared into the Weddell Sea after it became trapped in ice in 1915, had remained a mystery for decades. However, an expedition has now located the remarkably intact vessel at a depth of 3,008 metres, approximately four miles south of the position originally recorded by the ship’s captain Frank Worsley, The Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust said.

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