Sir Ernest Shackleton & Endurance ship #7

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15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic Explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic. He was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic age of Antarctic .exploration

Born in Kilkea, County Kildare , Ireland, Shackleton and his Anglo-Irish family moved to Sydenham in suburban south London when he was ten. Shackleton's first experience of the polar regions was as third officer on Captain Robert Falcon scotts Discovery expedition of 1901–1904, from which he was sent home early on health grounds, after he and his companions Scott and Edward Adrian Wilson set a new southern record by marching to latitude 82°S. During the Nimrod expedition of 1907–1909, he and three companions established a new record Farthest South latitude at 88°S, only 97 geographical miles (112 statute miles or 180 kilometres) from the South Pole, the largest advance to the pole in exploration history. Also, members of his team climbed Mount Erebus, the most active Antarctic volcano. For these achievements, Shackleton was knighted by King Edward VII on his return home.

Endurance was the three-masted barquentine in which Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men sailed for the Antarctic on the 1914–1917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. The ship, originally named Polaris, was built at Framnæs shipyard and launched in 1912 from Sandefjord in Norway. After its commissioners could no longer pay the shipyard, the ship was bought by Shackleton in January 1914 for the expedition, which would be her first voyage. A year later, she became trapped in pack ice and finally sank in the Weddell Sea off Antarctica on 21 November 1915. All of the crew survived.

The wreck of Endurance was discovered on 5 March 2022, 107 years after it sank, by the search team Endurance22. It lies 3,008 m (9,869 ft) deep, and is in good condition. It is designated as a protected historic site and monument under the Antarctic Treaty System.