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The Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust (FMHT) is delighted to announce that its one-of-a-kind 3D printed model of the wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance will go on public display at Discovery Point in Dundee.
Arriving on 30 April 2026, the model will be unveiled as part of a special event featuring a talk by FMHT Founding Trustee and Director of Exploration, Mensun Bound. The event will offer visitors a rare, behind-the-scenes look at both Shackleton’s legendary expedition and the modern mission that finally found the ship.
The model will remain on loan to the Dundee Heritage Trust throughout the Spring and Summer season until November 2026, this marks the first time the model has been exhibited in Scotland. As the first major stop on its planned UK tour, its debut at Discovery Point, home of RRS Discovery, places the wreck of Endurance at the heart of one of the UK’s most important centres for polar and maritime history.
Lost beneath Antarctic ice for more than a century, Endurance was discovered in 2022 by FMHT’s Endurance22 expedition. Lying at a depth of more than 3,000 metres, it remains one of the most remote and best-preserved shipwrecks ever found.
Protected under the Antarctic Treaty and a strict conservation plan, the wreck must remain undisturbed. Instead, the Endurance22 team used pioneering non-invasive techniques to record it in extraordinary detail, capturing over 25,000 high-resolution images alongside laser and sonar data to create a scientifically precise digital twin of the site.
Mensun Bound, Trustee of FMHT and Director of Exploration, said:
“The so-called ‘unreachable’ Endurance was situated in one of the most remote and hostile spots on the planet, a place that Shackleton himself called the worst portion of the worst sea on earth. Yet today, we can stand in a museum and look at it in extraordinary detail. This model is not an interpretation; it is a faithful, data-driven representation of the wreck exactly as it lies on the seabed. It allows people to connect, in a very real way, with both Shackleton’s story and the moment of discovery in 2022. That, for me, is the real power of this project.”
FMHT would like to thank Dundee Heritage Trust for their collaboration in hosting the model and incorporating it into their outstanding exhibition at Discovery Point.
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