Old Penguin Rookery

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Coordinates: 77 ° 33 '  S , 166 ° 10'  E

Relief Map: Antarctica
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Old Penguin Rookery​
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James Murray, Nimrod Expedition biologist, in the Old Penguin Rookery (ca.1908)

The Old Penguin Rookery ( English for Old Penguin Colony ) is a breeding colony of Adelie penguins on the Antarctic Ross Island . It is located on Blacksand Beach near Cape Royds .

Participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909) led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton named them.

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