On South Georgia Island we made landings at abandoned whaling stations at Grytviken and Stromness Bay. Although the stations are currently inhabited by seals and penguins, they were quite active in the early 1900's. Stromness is where Sir Ernest Shackleton, the Antarctic explorer, first encountered humans after his epic 800 mile voyage across the Southern Ocean and trek across the mountains and glaciers of South Georgia. On a subsequent expedition to South Georgia, Shackleton died and was buried at Grytviken.