Aurora Expeditions – Antarctica, South Georgia, and The Falklands – October 2024: Part VI (Shackleton, Elephant Island, Gibbs Island, and Deception Island)

My early season Antarctic expedition on Aurora Expedition’s Sylvia Earle continued, and it has had an unexpected but much appreciated personal sense of completion. In my now eight expeditions to Antarctica, I have heard various versions, with various amounts of enthusiasm, about Ernest Shackleton and his epic voyages to Antarctica,