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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Science
Vishwam Sankaran

First close-up images of famed polar explorer Ernest Shackleton’s last ship released

The first close-up images of the wrecked last ship of famed Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton have finally been obtained following a ‘once-in-a-generation’ expedition in the Labrador Sea.

An expedition led by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society in partnership with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is underway to map the wrecks and debris around the last ships of legendary polar explorers Sir Ernest Shackleton and Captain Robert Falcon Scott.

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