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With Liam Neeson Julian Ayer John Blackborow David Cale. CNN More than a century after it sank off the coast of Antarctica polar.

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. 1 day agoFrank HurleyScott Polar Research Institute University of CambridgeGetty Images The Endurance of Ernest Shackletons Antarctic Expedition was eventually crushed by the ice in which the crew. The ship was launched in 1912 from Sandefjord in Norway. Endurance was the three-masted barquentine in which Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men and one cat sailed for the Antarctic on the 19141917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.

1 day agoAs part of Shackletons Imperial Trans-Antarctic expedition between 1914 and 1917 Endurance was meant to make the first land crossing of Antarctica but it fell victim to the tumultuous Weddell Sea. Three years later she was crushed by pack ice and sank in the Weddell Sea off Antarctica. In his diary he wrote At 5pm she went down by the head.

A retelling of Sir Ernest Shackleton s ill-fated expedition to Antarctica in 1914-1916 featuring new footage of the actual locations and interviews with surviving relatives of key expedition members plus archived audio interviews with expedition members and a. From the moment Ernest Shackleton and his crew aboard the British expedition ship HMS Endurance had become immobilized 10 months earlier they had been preparing for this moment. The stern the cause of all the trouble was the last to go under water.

I cannot write about it So there she still lies at the bottom of the freezing Antarctic sea lost to the world. The Endurance finally sank on 21st November 1915 with Shackleton declaring to the crew Shes gone boys. 1 day agoErnest Shackletons Endurance ship found in Antarctica after 107 years.

In August 1914 polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica where he planned to cross the last uncharted continent on foot. Ernest Shackleton had intended to make the first land crossing of Antarctica during his Imperial Trans-Antarctic expedition between 1914 and 1917. In January 1915 after battling its way through a thousand miles of pack ice and only a days sail short of its destination the Endurance became locked in an island of ice.

The team will leave Endurances remains untouched. 1 day agoThe wreck of Endurance has been found in the Antarctic 106 years after the historic ship was crushed in pack ice and sank during an expedition by the explorer Ernest Shackleton.

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