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Endurance, one of the most famous boats in polar exploration, was discovered several days ago 10,000 feet beneath the surface of the Weddell Sea, one of the world’s coldest and most inaccessible ...

“She was doomed, no ship built by human hands could have withstood the strain.” When polar explorer Ernest Shackleton wrote this journal entry on October 27, 1915, his dreams of reaching Antarctica ...

A researcher believes he's cracked the mystery behind the sinking of Sir Ernest Shackleton's legendary ship Endurance. Part of one of the most famous Antarctic expeditions in history, Endurance set ...