And the things you'll see and experience-the sight of penguins marching along their snowy highways, the sound of a humpback whale surfacing to breathe-will far outweigh any minor hiccups around things like long travel days or figuring out how to pack your suitcase.
Deception Island is in the South Shetland Islands close to the Antarctic Peninsula with a large and usually "safe" natural harbor, which is occasionally affected by the underlying active volcano. This island is the caldera of an active volcano, which seriously damaged local scientific stations in 1967 and 1969