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Southern penguin

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Southern penguin

Penguins are found only in the southern hemisphere. This king penguin has come ashore on Stewart Island outside the South Sea Hotel, 1,100 kilometres north of the nearest king penguin breeding colony on Macquarie Island.

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Lloyd Spencer Davis, Penguins – Body shape, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/6384/southern-penguin (accessed 3 June 2026).

Story by Lloyd Spencer Davis, published 2 March 2009.