Historic shipwreck is found

The wreckage of the last ship of famous explorer Ernest Shackleton has been discovered, 62 years after it went missing. The ship, named the Quest, was found 15 miles off the coast of Canada by an international team led by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society (RCGS). Ernest Shackleton (1874–1922) was a British explorer who led three expeditions to Antarctica in the early 1900s. On his most well-known mission, his ship, the Endurance, got stuck in the ice and sank in 1914. Shackleton kept his crew alive for 22 months until they were rescued. In 1921, Shackleton set out on the Quest, which had been built in 1917, to sail around Antarctica. A few months into the journey, however, he died of a heart attack aboard the ship, at age 47.…

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