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One of the world's greatest undiscovered shipwrecks has finally been identified. The Endurance, the lost ship of the British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, was found at the weekend at the bottom of the Weddell Sea near Antarctica.

The vessel was crushed by sea-ice and sank in 1915, forcing Shackleton and his men to make an astonishing escape on foot and in small boats. The expedition to find the ship, led by the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust, has not attempted to recover any artefacts because the ship is a designated monument.

This symbol of the heroic age of polar exploration was found to be in 鈥渞emarkable鈥� condition according to the 蜜芽传媒's Dan Snow who joined Newsday from the Southern Ocean - even though it has been sitting in 3km (10,000ft) of water for over a century.

(Pic: Dan Snow on board the South African polar research and logistics vessel, S.A. Agulhas II, on an expedition to find the wreck of Endurance; Credit: Nick Birtwistle/Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust/PA Wires)

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