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Chintrap penguins and their chicks nesting on a slope overlooking the ocean on Thule Island
December 3, 2020

Chinstrap Penguins

Chinstrap penguins nest with their chicks on Thule Island. This uninhabited island is part of the chain of the South Sandwich Islands, which lie in between South America and Antarctica.
Photograph by Maria Stenzel, Nat Geo Image Collection

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