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Elephant Island, amongst the South Shetland Islands within the British Antarctic Territory

Elephant Island Elephant Island is an ice-covered, mountainous island off the coast of Graham Land, Antarctica in the outer reaches of the South Shetland Islands, which form part of the British Antarctic Territory. Its name was given by early explorers sighting elephant seals on its shores, and from the island's resemblance to an elephant's head. The island lies 779 miles west-southwest of South Georgia, 581 miles south of the Falkland Islands, and 550 miles southeast of Cape Horn. It is most famous as the place which Shackleton and his men reached after the loss of the Endurance and where the remaining men waited while Shackleton and five others sailed into the storm to seek rescue. (Read more)