As many as 107 years after it sank off the coast of Antarctica, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship HMS Endurance has been found at bottom of the Weddell Sea in remarkably good condition.

Video of the wreckage shows Endurance to be in remarkable condition.

Even though it has been sitting below 10,000ft of water for over a century, it looks just like it did on the November day it went down.

Its timbers, although disrupted, are still very much together, and the name – Endurance – is clearly visible on the stern.

"This is by far the finest wooden shipwreck I have ever seen. It is upright, well proud of the seabed, intact, and in a brilliant state of preservation," Mensun Bound, director of exploration, said in a statement.

"This is a milestone in polar history," he added.

The ship was crushed by sea-ice and sank in 1915. Shackleton and his men had defied the odds to make an extraordinary escape on foot and in small boats. The team's survival and eventual rescue months later, without any loss of life, was seen as a triumph of their tenacity and the incredible leadership skills of Shackleton.

The discovery was a collaboration between the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust and History Hit, the content platform co-founded by historian Dan Snow.

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