“She was doomed, no ship built by human hands could have withstood the strain.” When polar explorer Ernest Shackleton wrote this journal entry on October 27, 1915, his dreams of reaching Antarctica ...
It's one of the world's most famous shipwrecks, marooned nearly 10,000 feet deep beneath the surface of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica. Endurance, owned by legendary Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest ...
The infamous ship Endurance, which sank in Antarctica in 1915, wasn't as well built for a polar voyage as previously thought — and its owner was likely aware of its shortcomings. Explorer Ernest ...
In 1915, intrepid British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew were stranded for months in the Antarctic after their ship, Endurance, was trapped by pack ice, eventually sinking into the ...