ringed-penguin

Updated: June 22, 2025

Every now and then one of the animals would rise in the shallows and crawl up on the beach, which evidently was a recognized place of resort for its kind. A small rocky island which protected us to some extent from the north-westerly wind carried a ringed-penguin rookery.

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton - South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition