9th of March
Historical Antarctic
Pictures and Events
2022 - Wreck of Shackleton's Endurance found!
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"Without any exaggeration this is the finest wooden shipwreck I have ever seen
- by far,"
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"It is upright, well proud of the seabed, intact, and in a brilliant state
of preservation,"
10,000ft down in the Weddell Sea.
Ernest Shackleton, British Antarctic Expedition on the ship Nimrod, 1907- 1909.
1908 - Edgeworth David, Douglas Mawson, Alistair McKay, Jameson Adams and Eric Marshall are the first to reach the summit of Mount Erebus, 3,794 metres (12,448 ft) the worlds southernmost active volcano.
