Expedition scientists on board a vessel in Antarctica have embarked on the last stage of their voyage — the search for the wreck of the steam-yacht Endurance, which was abandoned by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton in 1915 when it was crushed by sea ice.
They are just a few days away from the spot where the shipwreck is thought to lie at the bottom of Antarctica’s Weddell Sea.
Now, the Agulhas II is making its way through heavy sea ice to the last known location of the Endurance, which the members of Shackleton’s expedition carefully recorded using astronomical sightings.
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Tom Metcalfe 