Guy Edwardes / Warbeth Beach, Stromness, Orkney with view to Hoy. Orkney Islands, Scotland, UK. August 2014.

Guy Edwardes / Warbeth Beach, Stromness, Orkney with view to Hoy. Orkney Islands, Scotland, UK. August 2014.

Ingo Arndt / Antarctic Fur Seal (Arctocephalus gazella) bull on land, Stromness Bay, South Georgia Island, Southern Ocean, Antarctic Convergence, November 2008

Ingo Arndt / Gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua) calling, Stromness Bay, South Georgia Island, Southern Ocean, Antarctic Convergence.

Ingo Arndt / Gentoo penguins (Pygoscelis papua) walking to the beach, Stromness Bay, South Georgia Island, Southern Ocean, Antarctic Convergence. November

Nick Garbutt / Wandering Albatross (Diomedea exulans) flying over rugged coast near Stromness, South Georgia, South Atlantic. January (digitally altered image)

Ashley Cooper / Folded rocks, showing the pressures created by tectonic drift, in Stromness Bay, South Georgia, in the Southern Ocean. February 2014

Ashley Cooper / Passengers on an expedition cruise to Antarctica following part of Shakleton's famous walk across South Georgia. The group are walking from Fortuna Bay to Stromness. South Georgia, Antarctica. Februar...

Ingo Arndt / Southern Elephant Seal (Mirounga leonina) bull roaring in water, Stromness Bay, South Georgia Island, Southern Ocean, Antarctic Convergence

Ingo Arndt / Southern Elephant Seal (Mirounga leonina) bull swimming and breathing at surface, Stromness Bay, South Georgia Island, Southern Ocean, Antarctic Convergence

Ingo Arndt / Gentoo Penguin (Pygoscelis papua) on nest, Stromness Bay, South Georgia Island, Southern Ocean, Antarctic Convergence

Rick Price / Quark Expeditions Sea Adventurer, Stromness Whaling Station, South Georgia. January 2015.

Rick Price / Antarctic Fur Seal (Arctocephalus gazella) pups near a sign warning people to keep out of the abandoned Stromness Whaling Station, South Georgia. January.

Mark Carwardine / South Georgia Shag (Phalacrocorax georgianus) carrying nesting material, Stromnes Bay, South Georgia Island

Brent Stephenson / Small lake above Fortuna Bay, suggested to be along the route which Shackleton and his men took when crossing South Georgia on their way down to Stromness South Georgia, South Atlantic, January 2012.

Tim Laman / Russell Laman photographing Crean Lake on the hike between Fortuna Bay and Stromness, retracing part of Shackleton's route. South Georgia, February 2011. Model released.

Charlie Summers / Four black-legged kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla) resting on sea wall at Stromness, Orkney Islands, Scotland, UK, July.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Frazil ice in the harbour at Stromness after several hours of sleet, South Georgia, 2009.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Frazil ice in the harbour at Stromness after several hours of sleet, South Georgia, 2009.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Zodiac filled with tourists powering through frazil ice in extreme weather, Stromness, South Georgia, 2009.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Zodiac making its way though frazil ice in the harbour at Stromness after many hours of sleet, South Georgia, 2009.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Zodiac powering through frazil ice in the harbour at Stromness after many hours of sleet. South Georgia, 2009.

Nick Garbutt / Antarctic Fur Seal colony (Arctocephalus gazella) with abandoned whaling station in the background. Stromness, South Georgia, South Atlantic. January 2010 (digitally stitched image)

Nick Garbutt / Southern Giant Petrel (Macronectes giganteus) head portrait, resting on beach. Stromness, South Georgia, South Atlantic. January.

Nick Garbutt / Wandering Albatross (Diomedea exulans) flying over the rugged coast near Stromness, South Georgia, South Atlantic. (digitally stitched image) February.

Andy Rouse / Aerial view of Stromness, a former whaling station, South Georgia, Antarctica, December 2006

Andy Rouse / Aerial view of three old whaling stations: Leith, Stromness and Husvik, South Georgia, Antarctica, December 2006

Andy Rouse / Aerial view of Stromness, a former whaling station, South Georgia, Antarctica, December 2006

Ingo Arndt / Southern Elephant Seal (Mirounga leonina) bull swimming, Stromness Bay, South Georgia Island

Ingo Arndt / Antarctic Fur Seal (Arctocephalus gazella) male, Stromness Bay, South Georgia Island

Ingo Arndt / Antarctic Fur Seal (Arctocephalus gazella) pups, Stromness Bay, South Georgia Island

Ingo Arndt / Gentoo Penguin (Pygoscelis papua) carrying nest material, Stromness Bay, South Georgia Island

Ingo Arndt / Gentoo Penguin (Pygoscelis papua) pair mating, Stromness Bay, South Georgia Island

Jouan & Rius / Fishing boats in Stromness harbour, The Orkney Isles, Scotland, UK

Martha Holmes / Cameraman Peter Scoones recording Southern elephant seal on location in Stromness Bay, South Georgia, filming for BBC television series "Life in the Freezer", February 1993

Chris Gomersall / Gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua) adult preening. Stromness, South Georgia, Antarctica.

Chris Gomersall / Gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua) displaying pair. Stromness, South Georgia, Antarctica.

Chris Gomersall / Gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua) adult and chick. Stromness, South Georgia, Antarctica.

Chris Gomersall / Gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua) adult and chick resting. Stromness, South Georgia, Antarctica.

Chris Gomersall / King penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) and Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella) by old whaling station. Stromness, South Georgia, Antarctica. January 2007

Chris Gomersall / Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella). Stromness Bay, South Georgia, Antarctica.

Martha Holmes / Gentoo penguins porpoising at surface (Pygoscelis papua) South Georgia, South Stromness

Peter Scoones / Abandonned whaling station at Stromness, South Georgia, South Atlantic Islands

Flip de Nooyer / Southern Elephant Seal (Mirounga leonina) pair resting near Stromness Bay, South Georgia Island

Colin Monteath / Tourist standing on the Fortuna Saddle views the derelict Norwegian Stromness whaling station, South Georgia Island

Colin Monteath / Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) herd grazing near derelict Stromness whaling station, introduced by Norwegians, South Georgia Island

Onne van der Wal / Workers houses at the deserted whaling station at Stromness, South Georgia.

Onne van der Wal / Workers houses at the deserted whaling station at Stromness, South Georgia.

Onne van der Wal / Workers houses at the deserted whaling station at Stromness, South Georgia.

Onne van der Wal / Workers houses at the deserted whaling station at Stromness, South Georgia.

Onne van der Wal / A crew member waiting on the dock of the abandoned whaling station at Stromness, South Georgia.

Onne van der Wal / Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella) outside abandoned whaling station at Stromness, South Georgia.

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Folded layers of coastal rocks which Shackleton used as landmarks while trying to reach Stromness Whaling Station during his famous crossing of the island in 1915, autumn, Stromness Bay, South Georgia...

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Small blue iceberg calved from nearby glacier melting in unusually warm temperature signaling global warming, fall, Stromness Bay, South Georgia, Southern Ocean, Antarctic Convergence

Colin Monteath / Five thousand year old Skara brae village near Stromness Island, Orkney, Scotland

Flip de Nooyer / Abandoned whaling station, Leith Harbor, Stromness Bay, South Georgia Island

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Elegant anemones (Sagartia elegans) on rocks, Stromness, Orkney, Scotland, North Atlantic Ocean, UK.

Shane Gross / Stromness, an abandoned whaling station on the northern coast of South Georgia Island, South Atlantic.

Ben Cranke / Imperial shag (Leucocarbo atriceps) taking off from Stromness Bay, South Georgia Island

Ben Cranke / South Georgia pintail (Anas georgica georgica). Stromness Bay, South Georgia Island

Ben Cranke / South Georgia pintails (Anas georgica georgica) flying, Stromness Bay, South Georgia Island

Ben Cranke / Southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) male, rests and yawns in shallow water, surrounded by floating ice. Stromness Bay, South Georgia Island

Ben Cranke / White-chinned petrel (procellaria aequinoctialis) flying over Stromness Bay, South Georgia Island

Jeff Vanuga / Stromness Bay whaling station. South Georgia Island. Antarctica.

Nick Garbutt / Southern giant petrel (Macronectes giganteus) resting with bill tucked under its wing. Stromness, South Georgia, South Atlantic.

Oriol Alamany / White-chinned petrel (Procellaria aequinoctialis) in flight near Stromness, South Georgia island, United Kingdom, November.