Elephant Island

Antartica

Elephant Island is a remote, ice-covered island in the South Shetland Islands at the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is famous as the refuge of Shackleton's Endurance crew, who survived four months at Point Wild awaiting rescue in 1916. Rarely landable due to weather, expedition ships view the monument at Point Wild, the glacier-covered cliffs, chinstrap penguins, and elephant seals in one of exploration history's most storied landscapes.