PHOTO OF THE DAY April 20, 2005  

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Where Cormorant Island, Antarctica
When 1988
Photographer George F. Mobley

Small in stature but large in distribution, the Adélie penguin is the most common penguin species found in Antarctica. Their nesting rookeries can be found all around the continent.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Antarctica: A Land of Isolation No More," April 1990, National Geographic magazine)


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