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Endurance captain Frank Worsley, Shackleton's gifted navigator, knew how to stay the course

  • Written by: Daniella McCahey, Assistant Professor of History, Texas Tech University
imageNavigator Frank Worsley, left, works with scientist Reginald James to take an observation by the stern of the Endurance.Frank Hurley/Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge/Getty Images

When the wreck of Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance was found nearly 10,000 feet below the surface of Antarctica’s Weddell Sea in March...

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