Cuverville Island is home to a colony of several thousand pairs of Gentoo Penguins. It is named after a vice-admiral in the French navy.
Cuverville island
Gentoo Penguins
Remnants from whaling days.
Moulting Gentoo Penguin
Gentoo chicks still too young to go to sea
The moult takes three weeks
Gentoo chick
returning from the sea
Skuas are always looking for food in penguin colonies.
Skua
Skuas
Cuverville Island
February 8, 2017
Miles Hearn