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Elephant Island

The mountainous icy terrain was a challenging but necessary refuge for the crew of HMS Endurance.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Photograph by Frank Hurley (photographer on HMS Endurance) and in the public domain via the State Library of New South Wales. Story by Kasha Patel.

Published December 25, 2020
Data acquired December 13, 2020

Sources:
Landsat 8 > OLI
Photograph