Ernest Shackleton’s wrecked ship found off coast of Antarctica

Expedition team locates wreckage of explorer's ship which sank in Weddell Sea in 1915

The world's most challenging shipwreck search" for one of the greatest legends of exploration history, Sir Ernest Shackleton's Endurance, lost 106 years ago in the icy waters of Antarctica, has succeeded.

The wreck has been found, 3,008 metres below the surface of what Shackleton described as the portion of the worst sea in the world". It was discovered on Saturday, the 100th anniversary of Shackleton's funeral, the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust said.