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Elephant Island is an ice-covered, mountainous island off the coast of Antarctica in the outer reaches of the South Shetland Islands, in the Southern Ocean.The island is situated 245 kilometres (152 miles) north-northeast of the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, 1,253 kilometres (779 miles) west-southwest of South Georgia, 935 kilometres (581 miles) south of the Falkland Islands, and 885 ...
South Georgia is a breeding ground for elephant seals, [13] fur seals, [14] [15] and king penguins. The island is home to the South Georgia pintail and the South Georgia pipit , which are endemic to the island.
The Seal Islands (also known as Îles des Phoques, Islas Foca, Islotes Foca and Seal Rocks) are a group of small islands and rocky islets lying about 7 km north and north-west of Elephant Island, in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. They extend east–west for about 5 km, [1] and are separated from Elephant Island by Sealers Passage.
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Cape Lookout, also known as Cabo Fossatti or Cabo Vigia, is a steep cape, 240 m high, marking the southern extremity of Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. The name Cape Lookout appears on a map of 1822 by Captain George Powell, a British sealer, and is now established in international usage.
After 15 months on the pack-ice Shackleton and his men managed to reach Elephant Island and safely returned home. [6] In March 2022, it was announced that the well-preserved wreck of the Endurance had been discovered four miles (6.4 km) from its anticipated location, at a depth of 3,008 metres (9,869 ft). [7]
Elephant Island is an uninhabited island in Sanma Province of Vanuatu in the Pacific Ocean. [2] Another island off the coast of Antarctica in the outer reaches of the South Shetland Islands , in the Southern Ocean , shares the same name.