The remote white peaks of Elephant Island, Antarctica stand in contrast to the rugged waters of the Southern Ocean.
The rugged shores of Elephant Island offer very few inhabitable locations, but in 1916, the island served as a refuge for British explorer Ernest Shackleton and his crew following the sinking of their ship in the pack ice of the Weddell Sea. Miraculously, all 28 members of Shackleton's party survived.
As an iceberg rocks back and forth, ocean water flows through the different tiers of ice.
