The team that found explorer Ernest Shackleton's lost ship visits his grave in South Georgia.
A short ceremony was held at Shackleton's graveside.
The visit to the grave was regarded as a kind of bookend to a story that has captivated the world for decades - of how Shackleton led his men to safety against all the odds when their expedition ship was trapped and then holed by ice in the Weddell Sea in 1915.Grytviken today. The old whalers cemetery is the white square at centre-left
It's also where he died of a heart attack as he was about to undertake a later Antarctic venture in 1921.In a remarkable coincidence, Endurance22's submersibles found the sunken Endurance on 5 March 2022 - exactly one hundred years to the day that Shackleton's funeral was held at Grytviken.
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