Visiting the Penguins

Spectacular images of Antarctica and its inhabitants

1. macaroni penguins ...





2. ... they are called Macaroni penguins, because of the feathers on the head, that really look like pasta.



3. This picture was taken on Heard Island. There, and its neighboring islands MacDonald live more than a million macaroni penguins.



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5. The most famous and perhaps the most majestic royal pingviny-. In the photo: the island of Hurd.



6. The island is the only active volcano Avstralii- Big Ben.



7. Its top (Mawson Peak) reaches a height of 2745 m.



8. Above the volcano clouds form the most unusual forms.



9. On the island of Macquarie live about 1000 sub-Antarctic penguins. They form colonies, each of which pairs up to 300 animals.



10. Almost everything that can be seen in Antarktike- delicious. A few moments just like this fabulous beauty- sunset, for example.



11. Penguins on an iceberg.



12. This is also the iceberg. What looks like a real mountain, in fact, nothing more than the ice.



13. Over the iceberg moon rose.



14. In many places you can watch amazing sculptures out of ice ...



15. ... and the amazing play of colors.



16. Penguins in patient ozhidanii- where this time the wind carries their ice floe?



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