Uploaded September 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Endurance is a ship with a fabled yet star-crossed history. In late 1914 and early 1915 Shackleton’s Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition attempted to achieve the first crossing of Antarctica from the Weddell Sea in the north-west to the Ross Sea in the south, via the South Pole.
As Endurance became stuck fast, Shackleton and his 28-strong crew abandoned ship and camped on the ice, watching their vessel be slowly crushed and then sink for good on November 21st, 1915. After that the explorer and his men had no choice but to make a desperate bid for survival. They travelled northwards in Endurance’s rescued lifeboats, crossing hundreds of kilometres over sea ice and the wild open waters of the Southern Ocean, before they reached remote Elephant Island five months later.
In the century since she sank off the coast of Antarctica, the ship has assumed legendary status, as one of the world’s great lost shipwrecks.
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Endurance is a ship with a fabled yet star-crossed history. In late 1914 and early 1915 Shackleton’s Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition attempted to achieve the first crossing of Antarctica from the Weddell Sea in the north-west to the Ross Sea in the south, via the South Pole.
As Endurance became stuck fast, Shackleton and his 28-strong crew abandoned ship and camped on the ice, watching their vessel be slowly crushed and then sink for good on November 21st, 1915. After that the explorer and his men had no choice but to make a desperate bid for survival. They travelled northwards in Endurance’s rescued lifeboats, crossing hundreds of kilometres over sea ice and the wild open waters of the Southern Ocean, before they reached remote Elephant Island five months later.
In the century since she sank off the coast of Antarctica, the ship has assumed legendary status, as one of the world’s great lost shipwrecks.
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