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Montevideo, June 10th 2026 - 08:13 UTC

Tag: Mensun Bound

  • Saturday, November 2nd 2024 - 12:57 UTC

    New documentary “Endurance” chronicles Sir Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic voyage

    It will air on National Geographic starting 1 November, followed by Disney+ and Hulu from 2 November.

    A new documentary titled Endurance has premiered, bringing to life the remarkable survival story of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated 1914 Antarctic expedition. The film, from National Geographic Documentary Films, combines restored archival footage of the century-old expedition with the modern-day quest to discover the wreckage of Shackleton’s ship, Endurance, which was found in 2022. The documentary is directed by Academy Award® winners Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, along with BAFTA® nominee Natalie Hewit.

  • Sunday, October 20th 2024 - 15:46 UTC

    Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust chair to step down

    Donald Lamont former Ambassador in Uruguay and former GovernorFalkland Islands

    Donald Lamont, long-serving Chair of the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust board of Trustees is retiring from his roles as chairman and Trustee. He will relinquish his role as chairman on 21st October 2024 and will resign as a Trustee on 4th November 2024.

  • Saturday, October 12th 2024 - 11:20 UTC

    Premier of the discovery of the “Endurance” at the London Film Festival

    The 2022 expedition that made the discovery at the bottom of the Antarctic continent at a depth of almost 3,000 meters was supported by the Falkland Islands Heritage Fund

    This Saturday, October 12, a documentary film about the discovery of the ship “Endurance” by the great Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton will be presented at the London Film Festival.

  • Saturday, July 13th 2024 - 10:12 UTC

    Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust and a bit of history on Eundurance22

    Mensun Bound, Director of Exploration and Simon Frederick Lighthelm, Ice pilot of the expedition raise the Falklands flag on the SA Angulhas II.

    On 5th March 2022 the Endurance22 Expedition, organized and funded by the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust, located the wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s iconic three-masted polar sailing ship, Endurance, which had not been seen since it was crushed by ice in the Weddell Sea in 1915. Among the team of Endurance 22 was Mensun Bound, a Falklands born maritime archeologist who was Director of Exploration.

  • Saturday, July 13th 2024 - 10:02 UTC

    UKHAT Conservation Plan for protecting “Endurance”, Shackleton's iconic vessel

    The Endurance was found in 2022 (Credit: © FMHT-National Geographic

    The UK Antarctic Heritage Trust are proud to announce the Conservation Management Plan (CMP) for one of the most famous shipwrecks of all time – Shackleton’s Endurance – has been published and is available to view on the site, enduranceshipwreck.org.

  • Monday, October 30th 2023 - 17:36 UTC

    The Wavertree and the Endurance; talk at South Street Seaport Museum, New York

    Mensun Bound and Captain Jonathan Boulware beneath the bow of the Wavertree

    On Tuesday, September 26th, at the South Street Seaport Museum in New York, Falkland Islander, Mensun Bound gave a lecture followed by a book signing of The Ship Beneath the Ice – The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance. The event occurred onboard the Wavertree, an old square rigger condemned at Port Stanley in 1910. This gathering was the culmination of a year-long book tour spanning the UK, USA, Canada, and parts of Europe and Scandinavia, during which time the book rose to Number 2 in the UK Best-Seller List.

  • Saturday, June 17th 2023 - 10:22 UTC

    The Nazi eagle of battleship Graf von Spee to become a dove of peace

    The eagle with the Nazi emblem in its claws hoisted from the River Plate back in 2006

    The man-sized, 350 kilos bronze eagle holding the Nazi emblem in its claws, rescued from the remains of the German battleship scuttled in the River Plate will be turned into a dove of peace, to be located somewhere along the Uruguayan coast where the mighty River Plate becomes the Atlantic Ocean.

  • Thursday, March 2nd 2023 - 10:14 UTC

    Key members of the Irish Diaspora recognised at the inaugural Business Post Global Irish Diaspora Awards

    Joanna Bound, Hon Alexandra Shacklerton, Sir Bob Geldof KBE and Mensun Bound during the Global Irish Diaspora Awards

    The Business Post Global Irish Diaspora Awards were held at the Waldorf Hilton, London on Friday, February 24, 2023. With over 70 million people across the globe who claim Irish ancestry, these awards have been established to recognize and celebrate the vast contribution to the world of business that Ireland and its people have made.

  • Sunday, December 11th 2022 - 15:00 UTC

    Book review: The Ship Beneath the Ice

    The Ship Beneath the Ice provides a detailed and well-written account of the international efforts which finally discovered the wreck

    The loss of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance is the stuff of legend. She was crushed in the ice of the Weddell Sea in 1915. The subsequent escape of Shackleton and his men is an epic of heroism and survival.

  • Wednesday, October 26th 2022 - 01:05 UTC

    “The ship beneath the Sea”, Shackleton's Endurance

    Bound achieved the crowning of an accomplishment for “a boy from the South Atlantic” who will ever have his name very close to that of the explorer Shackleton.

    “Well, what about the Endurance,” was the seed of the challenge suggested by a good friend of maritime archeologist Mensun Bound when they met in south Kensington at Caffe Nero, for a coffee in the summer of August 2012.