Sir Ernest Shackleton’s shipwreck has been unearthed.
Sir Ernest Shackleton's shipwreck has been located off
The wreckage of the Endurance - which set off in 1915 - has been discovered just off the coast of Antarctica 3,008 metres deep in the Weddell Sea.
Mensun Bound, a marine archaeologist involved in The Endurance 22 Expedition, the mission that set off last month to locate it told BBC News: "Without any exaggeration this is the finest wooden shipwreck I have ever seen - by far.”
He added of the 144ft ship: “It’s upright, well proud of the seabed, intact, and in a brilliant state of preservation.”
The remains were found on the 100th anniversary of the explorer’s funeral, who died in 1922.