Danco Island was charted by De Gerlache in 1898 and named after the expedition’s geophysicist Émile Danco. There is a Gentoo Penguin colony here and we also saw Arctic Terns. These amazing birds breed in the Arctic and then fly to the Antarctic to spend the northern hemisphere winter which, of course, is summer in Antarctica.
Danco Island
Arctic Tern
Kelp Gulls
Gentoo Penguins
Gentoo on nest
Gentoo “tobogganing”
Gentoo colony
Gentoo colony
Head skyward for “ecstatic display.”
Guano stained Penguin “highway.”
returning from the sea
January 9, 2017
Miles Hearn