ENDURANCE22

Finding Shackleton’s lost ice ship

In March 2022 the Endurance22 Expedition sucessfully located the wreck of Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship which had not been seen since it was crushed by the ice and sank in the Weddell Sea in 1915.

The hunt for Shackleton’s lost ice ship

The Expedition

In February and March 2022, a major international scientific expedition explored one of the coldest, harshest and most remote locations in the world, in a quest to find the Endurance. Using underwater robots, helicopters and other state-of-the-art technology, the Endurance22 expedition was the first to locate and survey Sir Ernest Shackleton’s lost ship which sank in the Weddell Sea in Antarctica in 1915.

The Search Area

The approximate location of Endurance was logged by the ship’s captain, Frank Worsley, using a sextant and a theodolite at the spot where she eventually sank in 1915, after becoming trapped and eventually crushed by the thick sea ice of the Weddell Sea. The Endurance22 expedition team used this information to get as close as possible to the Endurance wreck site.

Antarctica Map | Endurance22

Endurance Search Area

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💡Take a look at all the good work @RGS_IBGschools have been doing around the expedition.

📘The RGS-IBG is working with us to produce free resources for geography & history lessons, which will draw on the Society’s vast collections of resources.

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Great to mark the anniversary with members of the expedition being applauded at the event held at @scottpolar at @Cambridge_Uni for the discovery of Endurance on 5 March 2022.

A great honour for @Endurance_22 to be recognised by @ReachtheWorldco with the hugely prestigious 2022 Cronkite Award for Excellence in Storytelling.

Reach the World is delighted to announce that the @endurance_22 expedition will receive the 2022 Cronkite Award for Excellence in Storytelling! 1/4

Expedition members paying their respects at the Grytviken Cemetery, South Georgia, final resting place of Sir Ernest Shackleton. Photo @EstherHorvath3