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 Expedition Vessel
The Endurance22 expedition provided an unprecedented opportunity to explore one of the most remote and least studied places on our planet in a quest to uncover the lost secrets of the Endurance. Carrying a team of over 65 members, the mission was conducted from the South African polar research and logistics vessel, S.A. Agulhas II.
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.
Endurance Search Area
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In 1915 Ernest Shackleton’s legendary ship, Endurance, crumpled and sank beneath the ice that had gripped her for the best part of a year, but what followed was an astonishing story of courage and …survival.
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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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When ships are lost at sea, the “waiters” at @LloydsofLondon still record the misadventure in a “Casualty Book”, using dipping pen and ink. I went to see the entry for #Shackleton’s #Endurance. …Insurance matters are relevant to its future conservation. https://t.co/TX1HkJYHQy
Join Lasse Rabenstein @driftnoise and Nico Vincent @DeepOceanSearch as they reveal the incredible story of how the Endurance wreck was discovered in #Antarctica just a year ago by @Endurance_22 …#Shackleton
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🎙️The Explorers Roundtable Podcast
🚢Commemorating the one-year anniversary of the find, five members of the Endurance22 expedition discuss the historic discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance …in the Weddell Sea.
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Episode 10 (A Conversation with Five Members of the Endurance22 Expedition Commemorating the Anniversary of their Historic Discovery of the Shipwreck of Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance in Antarctica) | The Explorers Roundtable
In this episode, five members of the Endurance22 expedition discuss their historic discovery of Sir Ernest Shackleton&…
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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.
🎙️The Explorers Roundtable Podcast
🚢Commemorating the one-year anniversary of the find, five members of the Endurance22 expedition discuss the historic discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance in the Weddell Sea.
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#Shackleton #Endurance22
In this episode, five members of the Endurance22 expedition discuss their historic discovery of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance in the …
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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
A team photo, shortly before S.A. Agulhas II safely returned to Cape Town at the weekend.
(photo @EstherHorvath3)
Expedition members paying their respects at the Grytviken Cemetery, South Georgia, final resting place of Sir Ernest Shackleton. Photo @EstherHorvath3
