Shackleton’s ‘Endurance’ Ship Found: National Geographic Teams With History Hit for Documentary
variety.comNaman Ramachandran The wreck of Ernest Shackleton’s ship “Endurance” has been found 107 years after it sank off the coast of Antarctica and National Geographic has been swift to commission a documentary on the subject that has fascinated the world for over a century.National Geographic has partnered exclusively with History Hit, the SVOD and content platform co-founded by historian Dan Snow; All3Media’s Little Dot Studios and production company Consequential for a documentary detailing the successful search and discovery of one of the great lost shipwrecks of history — Ernest Shackleton’s “Endurance.” “Endurance” left South Georgia for Antarctica on Dec.
5, 1914, carrying Shackleton and 27 other men with the goal of reaching the South Pole and crossing the continent via an overland trek.
However, nearing Antarctica, the ship became trapped in pack ice and sank in 1915. The crew made it by sea to uninhabited Elephant Island before Shackleton and five men set off in a lifeboat on an epic journey to seek help from a whaling station in South Georgia, more than 800 miles away.
After several attempts, Shackleton eventually made it back to Elephant Island to rescue his crew. Organized by the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust, the expedition to locate the shipwreck set off from Cape Town on Feb.
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