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Article: Cold comfort.(Letter from Antarctica)(Travel narrative)
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- June 22, 2008
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When a thousand Adelie penguins congregate, they make a noise out of all proportion to how small and cute they are. Their collective caw sounds like a car engine turning over and over. I discovered this while sitting for a couple of hours in the midst of an Adelie colony near McMurdo Station in Antarctica. As a writer/editor/photographer for The Antarctic Sun, I'd come to interview penguin researchers who were camping out at Cape Royds, the same spot from which the Irish-born English explorer Ernest Shackleton launched his failed attempt at the South Pole in 1908. The researchers were collecting data on the impact of unusual sea-ice accumulation on the birds' breeding patterns. ...
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