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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
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Wreck of Shackleton’s ship Quest found, last link to ‘heroic age of Antarctic exploration’

Black and white image of two people watching a ship sinking in the sea
The Quest sinking in 1962. Finding it has been called ‘one of the final chapters in the extraordinary story of Sir Ernest Shackleton’. Photograph: Tore Topp

The wreck of the ship on which renowned Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton died has been found off the coast of Labrador, Canada, searchers have announced.

Locating the Quest – a schooner-rigged steamship which sank on a 1962 seal hunting voyage – represents a last link to the “heroic age of Antarctic exploration”, said search leader John Geiger.

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