The Quest was found using sonar scans on Sunday evening, sitting on its keel under 390 metres of churning, frigid water, the society said.
explorer of Antarctica and the Arctic, has been found off the coast of Labrador in Canada, 62 years after it when missing.The Quest was found using sonar scans, sitting on its keel under 390 metres of churning, frigid water.
Shackleton's death aboard the ship in 1922 marked the end of what historians consider the "heroic age" of Antarctic exploration. The explorer led three British expeditions to the Antarctic, and he was in the early stages of a fourth when he died. He was 47.
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