There's no reason to launch a satellite to cover down there and even most "satellite" map images are actually from aerial survey aircraft.
It's hard to say what we're seeing in your photo, but Deception Island with that big protect natural harbor seems like a great place for ships to ride out weather, especially since that whole passage down around the tip of South America can be absolutely brutal to cross with notoriously horrible weather and was a huge factor in the HMS Bounty and it's mutiny as they spent a month trying to get around the Horn, before the Captain said fuck it and instead sailed east instead of west.
There's no reason to launch a satellite to cover down there and even most "satellite" map images are actually from aerial survey aircraft.
It's hard to say what we're seeing in your photo, but Deception Island with that big protect natural harbor seems like a great place for ships to ride out weather, especially since that whole passage down around the tip of South America can be absolutely brutal to cross with notoriously horrible weather and was a huge factor in the HMS Bounty and it's mutiny as they spent a month trying to get around the Horn, before the Captain said fuck it and instead sailed east instead of west.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Bounty