Fortuna Bay, Stromness – it is here that Shackleton arrived after a 36 hour walk from King Haakon Bay on the other side of the island! (after gruelling months on ice floes trying to find land)…to reach help and save his men on Elephant Island. The beach and plains are rich with wildlife – penguins and seals. We do a walk to a waterfall in the distance, not very speccy but good to stretch the legs.

After lunch, we travel across Cumberland bay to King Edward Point, and land at the former whaling station of Grytviken, established in 1904 by the Norwegian sea captain Carl Anton Larsen. We visit the museum which is a tribute to Antarctic explorers, (mainly Shackleton) and has memorabilia from when the place was a whaling station. The Lutheran church building on the island has had a few uses, cinema, post office, now a church. We toast Shackleton at his gravesite.