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    publication." Levick observed the Adélie penguins at Cape Adare, the site of the largest Adélie penguin rookery in the world. As of June 2012[update], he...
    45 KB (5,001 words) - 06:15, 18 November 2024
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    water. Hundreds of African penguins have been harmed following these spills due to the port's close proximity to penguin rookeries on St. Croix Island and...
    47 KB (5,245 words) - 05:19, 8 November 2024
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    rockhopper penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome) is a species of rockhopper penguin, that is sometimes considered distinct from the northern rockhopper penguin. It occurs...
    22 KB (2,256 words) - 08:59, 18 November 2024
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    little penguin rookery. Visitors later reported finding dead penguins there with their feet burned off. In 1938 an account was given of a little penguin found...
    108 KB (11,235 words) - 02:29, 23 October 2024
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    municipalities to form Huon Valley Council. The island is home to the entire royal penguin population during their annual nesting season. Ecologically, the island...
    49 KB (4,698 words) - 05:07, 22 November 2024
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    king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) is the second largest species of penguin, smaller, but somewhat similar in appearance to the emperor penguin. There...
    39 KB (4,481 words) - 09:17, 6 November 2024
  • A rookery, in the colloquial English of the 18th and 19th centuries, was a city slum occupied by poor people and frequently also by criminals and prostitutes...
    10 KB (1,211 words) - 08:13, 12 October 2024
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    beings facing very different challenges. The winter journey to the penguin rookery eventually became a case study on how a paradigm shift in scientific...
    11 KB (1,431 words) - 18:14, 9 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Penguin, Tasmania
    town was named by the botanist Ronald Campbell Gunn for the little penguin rookeries that are common along the less populated areas of the coast. Sulphur...
    20 KB (2,095 words) - 03:40, 27 August 2024
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    1994, a penguin from Auster rookery reached a depth of 564 m (1,850 ft); the entire dive took him 21.8 min. Both male and female emperor penguins forage...
    68 KB (8,272 words) - 04:15, 14 November 2024
  • former British aircraft manufacturer Auster (surname) Auster rookery, an Emperor penguin rookery in Antarctica 19861 Auster, an asteroid Taylorcraft Auster...
    599 bytes (104 words) - 02:17, 2 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Penguin Island (South Shetland Islands)
    Penguin Island (also known as Georges Island, Île Pingouin, Isla Pingüino, and Penguin Isle) is one of the smaller of the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica...
    6 KB (475 words) - 16:59, 6 April 2024
  • several shops and restaurants. Grassy is also known for the little penguin rookery near the port (safe harbour) and platypus at the Upper Grassy Dam....
    23 KB (2,229 words) - 05:10, 2 October 2024
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    breed on the Auckland Islands. There are also large numbers of breeding penguins and other seabirds, including almost half of the world's species of albatross...
    7 KB (816 words) - 07:57, 13 April 2024
  • island, close to a little penguin breeding colony. In 1985, the Victorian government decided that, to protect the penguin rookery, further development of...
    9 KB (789 words) - 10:13, 7 May 2023
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    67.39611°S 63.950694°E / -67.39611; 63.950694 Auster Rookery is an Emperor penguin rookery on sea-ice, sheltered by grounded icebergs, 5 kilometres...
    1 KB (121 words) - 02:36, 2 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Royal penguin
    The royal penguin (Eudyptes schlegeli) is a species of penguin, which can be found only on the sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island and adjacent islands. The...
    9 KB (882 words) - 18:08, 7 June 2024
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    entrance to McMurdo Sound is a protected area due to its site as a penguin rookery. Black Island – This island is west of nearby White Island and is about...
    33 KB (3,766 words) - 11:44, 20 October 2024
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    Cape Adare (category Penguin colonies)
    Zealand authorities due to its proximity to the world's largest Adélie penguin rookery at Cape Adare. The first buildings erected by Carsten Borchgrevink...
    12 KB (1,284 words) - 03:14, 29 October 2024
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    Erebus. Edmonson Point and Cape Washington have Adelie penguin and emperor penguin rookeries and south polar skuas and Weddel seals are also found. More...
    86 KB (9,518 words) - 18:58, 20 November 2024
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