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By Jonathan AmosScience correspondent 22 April 2020 Image copyrightF.HURLEY/SPRIImage captionThe Endurance's ill-fated voyage marked the end of the "heroic age" of Antarctic explorationIt's going to take a monumental effort to locate the iconic ship of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton.This is the conclusion of scientists who tried and failed last year to find the Endurance, which sank in 3,000m of water in the Weddell Sea in 1915.The team says the sea-ice in the area above the wreck site is nearly always thick and extensive.It means most expeditions would struggle even to get close enough to begin a search.The Weddell Sea Expedition 2019 did amazingly well, reaching the recognised wreck location and launching an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to survey the ocean floor. But this robot broke communications with the expedition research vessel, SA Agulhas II, some 20 hours into its mapping operation and was never seen again.What it might have detected, we'll ne…