London, March 9 (BNA) Scientists said they have found the wreck of the polar explorer Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance ship, more than a century after it was lost in Antarctic ice.
The Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust says the ship is located 3,000 meters (10,000 feet) below the surface of the Weddell Sea, about 6.4 kilometers (four miles) south of the site recorded in 1915 by captain Frank Worsley.
An expedition set out from South Africa last month to search for the ice-crushed ship that sank in November 1915.
Minson Bond, director of exploration for Endurance22, said the footage showed the ship in remarkably good condition.
Shackleton’s 1914-16 attempt to become the first person to cross Antarctica through the South Pole failed – he never set foot on the continent.
But his successful attempt to reach for help at a remote whaling station in the South Atlantic and rescue his men is a heroic feat of stamina. All the men survived and were rescued several months later.
The expedition to find the ship comes 100 years after Shackleton’s death in 1922.
British historian and broadcaster Dan Snow, who accompanied the campaign, wrote on Twitter that the stamina was found on Saturday, “100 years to the day since Shackleton’s burial.”
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