 During that trip, his ship, the "Antarctic", was crushed and sunk by icebergs, and he and his crew were forced to weather fourteen months on the neighboring Snow Hill Island, surviving on penguins and seals.Ever since his voyage on the "Jason", the island has been the subject of paleontological study.The Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary (K-Pg) outcrops on Seymour Island in the upper levels of the López de Bertodano Formation.