Some incredible new images being shown from the resting place of the HMS Endurance - October 2024

New images rendered from over 25,000 photographic scans made on the 2022 expedition to rediscover HMS Endurance have been released in celebration of a new documentary from National Geographic and the Falklands Heritage Maritime Trust.

After more than 100 years submerged under the icy waters of Antarctica, a series of new images have revealed Ernest Shackleton’s ship, HMS Endurance, in a ‘remarkable state of preservation’ to a stunning new level of detail down to the very boots worn by crew members.

The famed vessel found its final resting place three kilometres below the surface of the Weddell Sea when it sank in Antarctica in 1915 having become stuck in pack ice. It was an event that  forced its crew to embark upon one of the most celebrated survival quests in history.​

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