Vintage Photos of Polar Exploration

A pair of Adelie penguins. January 1911 British Antarctic Expedition.
Scott Polar Research Institute Cambridge

March of the Penguins
A pair of Adélie penguins are caught on camera in January 1911. Eighty one years earlier, French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville named them for his wife and they remain common along the Antarctic coast and nearby islands.

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