How Shackleton’s Endurance Endured for 107 Years on the Bottom of the Weddell Sea

The Endurance22 Expedition announced yesterday that they have discovered the wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton‘s ship Endurance, which was crushed by pack ice off Antarctica in 1915.  The ship was in remarkably good condition. How is it that the ship is so … Continue reading

Update: Shackleton’s Lost Ship Endurance Located After 107 Years

The Endurance22 Expedition announced today that they have discovered the remarkably intact remains of Sir Ernest Shackleton‘s ship Endurance, which was crushed by pack ice off Antarctica in 1915.  A team of marine archeologists, adventurers, and technicians on the icebreaking … Continue reading

Stuck in the Ice, Searching for Shackleton’s Endurance

In early February, the Endurance22 expedition set off from Cape Town, South Africa for Antarctica’s Weddell Sea aboard the icebreaking research ship, SA Agulhas II. Their objective is to locate, survey, and film the wreck of Endurance, Ernest Shackleton’s ship that … Continue reading

Endurance22 Expedition, Search for Shackleton’s Lost Ship Beneath the Ice, Gets Underway

In early January, we posted about two memorial Antarctic expeditions on the 100th anniversary of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s death. One of the expeditions, Endurance22, organized by the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust, hopes to locate, survey, and film the wreck of … Continue reading

Update: Weddell Sea Expedition 2019 Abandons Search for Shackleton’s Endurance

It was a long-shot from the beginning. The Weddell Sea Expedition 2019 had dispatched the icebreaking polar-supply and research-vessel SA Agulhas II to study Antarctica’s Larsen C ice sheet. While in the area, the expedition attempted to locate Sir Ernest … Continue reading

Seeking Shackleton’s Endurance Beneath the Larsen C Ice Shelf

Last April, we posted about a planned expedition to the Antarctic’s Weddell Sea on the icebreaking polar-supply and research-vessel SA Agulhas II. The Weddell Sea Expedition 2019 is now underway, and scientists have spent the past two weeks investigating the Larsen C … Continue reading

Searching for Shackleton’s Ship Endurance While Studying the Larsen C Ice Shelf

Next January and February, an expedition to Antarctica will search for Ernest Shackleton‘s doomed ship, Endurance, crushed by the ice in 1915. Finding the wreck of the ship is not the primary objective of the venture, however, which is to study … Continue reading

The Shackleton or Leonard Hussey’s Banjo Reborn

When the 1914 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition‘s three-masted barquentine,  Endurance, was crushed in the Antarctic ice,  expedition leader, Sir Ernest Shackleton, allowed each man to take off only two pounds of possessions, including their boots. The only exception Shackleton made was Leonard Hussey’s banjo, which weighed … Continue reading

Shipworms, Whale Bones and Shackleton’s Endurance

The press recently has been full of headlines about Ernest Shackleton‘s ill-fated ship, Endurance.  The Christian Science Monitor asks, “What happened to Shackleton’s sunken ship?”  Radio New Zealand answers the question with “Shackleton’s ship could still be in good condition.”  … Continue reading

Shackleton’s 101-Year-Old Whisky – Aged in Ice

We recently posted about the world’s oldest champagne found on the Baltic seabed.  While not as old, yet equally historic, a case of Shackleton’s Whisky has recently gone on display at the the Canterbury Museum in Christchurch on New Zealand’s South … Continue reading