A rare, cloud-free view of Elephant Island, off the northeast tip of the Antarctic Peninsula.
December 13, 2020 - A rare, cloud-free view of Elephant Island. The highest points, Mount Pendragon (970 meters or 3,200 feet) and Mount Elder (945 meters or 3,100 feet), are located on the southern side. In the center, Endurance glacier collects most of the ice flowing in the southeast direction. Elephant Island is located about 250 kilometers (150 miles) northeast of the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. Geologically, the island is part of the Scotia Plate.
Size: 6150px × 4375px
Location:
Photo credit: © Stocktrek Images / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
Keywords: antarctica, bay, cape, change, climate, color, day, drake, earth, elder, elephant, geography, geoscience, glacier, glaciology, global, horizontal, ice, image, island, islands, land, landform, mount, mountainous, nasa, natural, ocean, outdoors, pardo, passage, pendragon, people, photography, physical, plate, point, polar, ridge, rowett, satellite, science, scotia, sea, shetland, south, southern, space, table, valentine, view, warming, weddell, wild, world
