Site Report: Antarctica - Elephant Island

Elephant Island

Elephant Island

Island off of Antarctica

Visits

2021-12-05: This was the place where Shackleton got his crew stranded on some island with about 100 square feet of flat land.

Species Seen

Kingdom: Animals (11 records)

Phylum: Chordates (11 records)

Class: Birds (11 records)

Order: Pelicans (3 records)
- Family: Cormorants
- Antarctic Shag (Leucocarbo bransfieldensis)
- Family: Jaegers and Skuas
- Brown Skua (Stercorarius antarcticus)
- Family: Penguins
- Chinstrap Penguin (Pygoscelis antarcticus)

Order: Shorebirds and Allies (1 record)
- Family: Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers
- Kelp Gull (Larus dominicanus)

Order: Tubenoses (7 records)
- Family: Albatrosses
- Cape Petrel (Daption capense)
- Black-browed Albatross (Thalassarche melanophris)
- Family: Shearwaters and Petrels
- Southern Giant-Petrel (Macronectes giganteus)
- Northern Giant-Petrel (Macronectes halli)
- Southern Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialoides)
- Family: Southern Storm Petrels
- Wilson's Storm-Petrel (Oceanites oceanicus)
- Black-bellied Storm-Petrel (Fregetta tropica)

Lifelists

Trips

Antarctica and Argentina