Endurance (Shackleton)

The account

The ice took her slowly, beams cracking like artillery while the crew stood on the floe and watched their ship die. Shackleton's order was simple: every man comes home. Eight hundred miles of open polar sea in a rowboat, and not one was lost. The ship herself waited a century in the stillest water on Earth, and when the cameras found her in 2022 she stood upright on the seabed, the name across her stern still bright: <em>ENDURANCE</em>.

Leads, where the trail points now

• The site is documented at Weddell Sea, Antarctica; the open questions now are access and what remains, not where it is.
• Protected as a Historic Site and Monument under the Antarctic Treaty, look, do not touch.
• What is there: A polar legend, astonishingly preserved.