BY ENDURANCE WE CONQUER
AN ICE BREAKER
The Endurance has been designed to cope with the harsh conditions of the polar environment. Its black hull, measuring 44 metres long, is made of extra thick oak so as to barge through pack ice without sustaining damage. At the bow – which takes the brunt of the impacts – the timbers are 130cm thick. Yet even the Endurance can’t break its way through the frozen Weddell Sea during Shackleton’s expedition.