Elephant Island is an ice-covered mountainous island off the coast of Antarctica in the outer

reaches of the South Shetland Islands, in the Southern Ocean. Its name was given by early
explorers sighting elephant seals on its shores. The island is situated 245 kilometres (152 miles)
north-northeast of the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, 1,253 kilometres (779 miles) westsouthwest
of South Georgia, 935 kilometres (581 miles) south of the Falkland Islands, and 885 kilometres
(550 miles) southeast of Cape Horn. It is within the Antarctic claims of Argentina, Chile and
the UK. Brazil has a shelter on the island, Goeldi, supporting the work of up to six researchers
each during the summer.[1] and another (Wiltgen), which was dismantled in the summer of
1997/98.