PHOTO OF THE DAY September 22, 2004  

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Where South Georgia island, Falkland Islands
When 1998
Photographer Maria Stenzel

Apparently preferring level ground near the sea, a group of king penguins bunches on rocky flats. A king penguin colony may contain anywhere from tens to thousands of birds.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Shackleton: Epic of Survival," November 1998, National Geographic magazine)

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