The wreckage of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship "Endurance", which was crushed by Antarctic ice and sank some 10,000 feet (3,000m) to the ocean floor more than a century ago, has been found, a team searching for it said yesterday.

The three-masted sailing ship was lost in November 1915 during Shackleton's failed attempt to make the first land crossing of Antarctica.

Previous attempts to locate the 144-foot-long (44m) wooden wreck...