Island of the Elephant

The Île of the Elephant is a mountainous island located at the North-West of the the Antarctic. It belongs to the archipelago of the Shetland Islands of the South. Its geographical position is, to 1300 km in the south-west of the South Georgia. It holds its name of the large colony of sea elephants which populated it when it was named for the first time in 1821 by the hunter with the whale British George Powell. She was discovered by Edward Bransfield in 1820.

Glaze permanently of Ice, the island is approximately 10 km long for 2 km broad. Its culminating point, Pardo Ridge , amounts to 850 Mr. Because of the very hard climate, the fauna and the Flore quasi-non-existent, is put there besides some colonies of Manchots papou and of Phoque S. Of the Manchots to chin-strap nest there too.

For lack of easy Damping of access, the island colonized forever by the man. Sir Ernest Shackleton found nevertheless refuge in 1916 there with its men at the time of his attempt at crossing of the Antarctic (an epopee told in its account the odyssey of the Endurance ).