Ah, Elephant Island!! We enjoyed it on our first trip down there, but not so much the second time on the Mariner. On our Circle South America trip, we were supposed to spend three days around the Antarctica peninsula, but because of bad weather, we spent the whole time circleing Elephant Island. Fortunatly there were a few icebergs floating around to look at --Elephant Island got old after a while. I love the story about Shakleton--we took pretty much the same route you are when we were on the Hanseatic.