British scientists in race to find lost shipwreck of Ernest Shackleton's Endurance

Ernest Shackleton's Ship Endurance Trapped in Ice © Bettmann

When on 21st November 1915 the polar explorer ship Endurance finally yielded to the Antarctic pack ice, Ernest Shackleton and his crew began one of the most gruelling survival attempts in history.

Their five-month ordeal on the ice floes followed by the all-or-nothing 720-nautical-mile dash to South Georgia has since become the stuff of legend, pored over by scholars and adventurers for more than a century.

But of the ship itself, no trace has been detected since the day it went down.

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