Expedition to search for Shackleton’s ship in Antarctic

A photograph of HMS Endurance by Frank Hurley; there are hopes that the expedition could find glass plates abandoned by the photographer among other artefacts on the wreck.

The location of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance has been one of the great maritime mysteries since the ship became trapped in ice and sank in 1915. 

Finding this symbol of the “heroic age” of polar exploration at the bottom of the Weddell Sea was long thought impossible because of the harshness of the Antarctic environment — “the evil conditions”, as Shackleton described them.