Date: Dec. 14/22 ....At sea (Drake Passage), en route to Stanley, Falkland Islands. (The Island Sky passing on port side).
https://www.noble-caledonia.co.uk/vessels/sea/island-sky/

On December 13th we visited Point Wild (Elephant Island). We did some cruising at Point Wild, however the zodiac routes taken did not allow proper positioning to capture photo of our vessel with glacier in the background and/or the bust of Chilean Captain Luis Alberto Pardo (In command of the tug "Yelcho", that recued the survivors of the Endurance).

Brief history of Point Wild-Elephant Island.......
One of the most remote islands in the world, its position leaves it open to the full force of Antarctica’s ferocious weather system. Situated at the north end of the South Shetlands, a chain of desolate volcanic islands that flank the north-west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, Elephant Island doesn’t get many visitors.
The rough waters make landings there notoriously challenging. The people that do brave the elements to come here do so for good reason. It is the unsuspecting home to a chapter taken from one of the greatest survival stories ever told.
To describe it as anything other than the most inhospitable place on earth feels like an understatement. And that is what Shackleton and his men thought as they approached the island in their open boats in 1916.
Having lost their ship The Endurance in the ice of the Weddell Sea over one thousand miles to the south, Shackleton and his men were desperate for rescue. Their journey in open wooden boats had already taken them across some of the harshest conditions known to man.
Everything had taken its toll, from the sea ice that collapsed under their weight to the tempestuous seas they had to cross to reach land. Their health was suffering and they were dangerously low on supplies. When they reached Elephant Island, Shackleton would have a tough decision to make that could spell life or death for the men.
It was from this very place that on April 24th, 1916, that Shackleton would set sail with five of his men in an open boat in a daring attempt to reach South Georgia eight hundred miles away. Shackleton knew the chances of rescue were low since he didn’t attempt to get help alone.
For the twenty-two men left behind under the leadership of Frank Wild, it would be a tense time. With no radio contact they would have no idea if help would ever come. They would be left alone to fend for themselves, surviving on the penguins and seals that came infrequently to the shore. Their fate lay in Shackleton’s ability to reach South Georgia.
Shackleton did indeed make it to South Georgia and wasted no time in facilitating a rescue. After three attempts that were blocked by sea ice he finally reached Point Wild on the 30th August 1916 on a Chilean tug called Yelcho. As he neared the shore he was overjoyed to see every man alive after having survived an Antarctic winter on Elephant Island.
Source: Excerpts from... the wilderplaces.com (A personal journey to the most remote places on earth)