An Antarctic explorer's ship has been discovered 106 years after it sank. Here are 26 other famous shipwrecks around the world.

Talia LakritzMar 11, 2022, 12:17 IST

Navagio Beach in Greece is famous for its shipwreck.turtix/Shutterstock

Countless shipwrecks sit beneath the ocean and stranded on land around the world.
The Titanic continues to fascinate marine archaeologists and amateur explorers alike.

Explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance was discovered 106 years after it sank during the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1915.

The Weddell Sea in Antarctica.Reuters

The world's oldest intact shipwreck was discovered in the Black Sea 50 miles off the coast of Bulgaria in 2018.

The Black Sea.Black Sea Maritime Archaeology Project (Black Sea MAP)

The 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Baron Gautsch, an Austro-Hungarian steamboat that sank in the northern Croatian Adriatic sea, was marked on August 13, 2014.

Rovinj, Croatia.Antonio Bronic/Reuters

The SS Maheno went from ocean liner to hospital ship to a rusty wreck on Fraser Island, Australia.

Fraser Island, Australia.Shutterstock

The skeletal remains of an unknown French sailor sit in the hull of the wreck of French explorer La Salle's The Belle ship in the Gulf of Mexico.

Gulf of Mexico.Pat Sullivan/AP

The Centaur was an Australian hospital ship sunk by a Japanese torpedo in 1943.

Moreton Island, Australia.Bruce Long, File/Pool/AP

The Panagiotis ran aground on the Greek island of Zakynthos in 1980.

Navagio Beach, Greece.turtix/Shutterstock

The Titanic sank in 1912 after colliding with an iceberg, but the wreck wasn't discovered until 1985.

Nova Scotia, Canada.Reuters

Gribshunden, a 15th-century ship from Denmark, is probably the world's best preserved late medieval ship.

Ronneby, Sweden.Johan Ronnby/Sodertorn University/TT News Agency/Reuters

How exactly the ship Dimitrios ended up wrecked on Valtaki Beach in Greece is still a mystery.

Valtaki Beach, Greece.Shutterstock

Erebus, one of two ships from the lost Franklin Expedition in the 1840s, was discovered in Canada in 2014.

Canada.Parks Canada/Handout/Reuters

The SMS Coln was a light cruiser that launched in 1916. Its armored control tower and gun mounts are still visible, distinguishing it as a war ship.

Orkney Islands, Scotland.Nigel Roddis/Reuters

The Eduard Bohlen ran aground in Namibia in 1909.

Namibia's Skeleton Coast.Shutterstock

The ship Tabarka was deliberately sunk during World War II to try and block the path of German U-Boats.

Orkney Islands, Scotland.Nigel Roddis/Reuters

The Satil Wreck in Eilat, Israel, is a popular destination for high-fashion photo shoots.

Eilat, Israel.Gabriel Rif/Reuters

A rotting boat in Inverness, California, has become a beloved landmark.

Inverness, California.Shutterstock

Holes are still visible in the wreckage of Russian destroyer Moskva, which sank in the Black Sea in 1941 in a battle along the Romanian coast.

Bucharest, Romania.Respiro Underwater Society/Mircea Popa/Handout/Reuters

Marine archaeologists in the Hawaiian islands found a blubber hook from the 19th-century shipwrecked whaling ship Two Brothers.

Los Angeles, California.Greg McFall/NOAA/Reuters

Jacques Cousteau discovered the British transport ship the Thistlegorm, which lies at the bottom of the Red Sea in Egypt.

Red Sea, Egypt.Peter Andrews/Reuters

The wrecked Italian cargo ship Probitas was discovered by a research vessel in Albania.

Ionian Sea, Albania.Albanian National Coastline Agency/AP

This wreck was found near Giron, Cuba, a landing site during the Bay of Pigs Invasion in 1961.

Playa Giron, Cuba.Jorge Silva/Reuters

Archaeologists dated this bust found off the coast of Corsica in the Mediterranean Sea back to a shipwreck from the third century.

Corsica, France.HO/Stringer JS/DL/Reuters

The US sank more than 50 Japanese ships in Chuuk Lagoon, Micronesia, during World War II.

Chuuk Lagoon, Micronesia.Nicole Evatt/AP

Marine life sprouts at the site of a 4th century shipwreck off the coast of Albania.

Albania.Geo Delveroudis/AP

Indonesia has a graveyard of nearly 500 ships from Asia, Europe, and the Middle East in the Java Sea.

Mentawai Islands, Indonesia.Dita Alangkara/File/AP

The decommissioned Navy landing ship Spiegel Grove was scuttled, or intentionally sunk, in Florida in 2002.

Key Largo, Florida.Fraser Nivens/Florida Keys News Bureau/Getty Images

Ancient Korean porcelain from a shipwreck is seen in this photo released by the National Maritime Museum in Mokpo, South Korea.

Mokpo, South Korea.National Maritime Museum, Mokpo/Handout/Reuters

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