Elephant Island, Antarctica

... the trip. Video of our group playing in the wind. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42TKJl2BbDc After cruising close to Elephant Island we finally turned south west around Gibbs Island around 12:30 As we waited for what had become our favorite ...

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Day 13, Sat 16 Nov: Elephant Is, South Shetlands: Morning zodiac cruise at Point Wild where a monument sticks out of a rocky sea marking the spot where Shackleton left his men to seek rescue at Stromness.  The rocks are covered in Chin Strap Penguins ...

MILES: flying 8517, bus 22, taxi 33, walking 12, ship 1166, Zodiac boat 6 total: 9756 Coordinates at Elephant Island: Approximately 300 mile trip from last stop. 8:30am Some sun, but cold (36 degrees) and very windy. The wind is so strong I could ...

... still going when I went to sleep. This morning it was still somewhat foggy, but we did have some visibility. We arrived off Elephant Island and spent the morning in that area. Early on we also had some snow flurries We saw low rocky mountains, glaciers ...