Bransfield Strait or Fleet Sea is a body of water about 100 kilometres wide extending for 300 miles in a general northeast – southwest direction between the South Shetland Islands and the Antarctic Pe
The strait from Livingston Island, with Antarctic Peninsula seen on the horizon
Flensing at Whalers Bay, Deception Island. By 1912–1913, the island had 12 factory ships, and 27 catchers, occupying 200 people, with 3,000 rotting whale carcasses in the Whalers Bay area.