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The maximum population of penguins is in.....Galapagos {island;Antarctica;Greenland} OR South Africa?
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#25438. Asked by wanttoknow. (Dec 22 02 4:22 AM)
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Kainantu
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Antarctica. Emperor Aptenodytes forsteri 175,000 pairs... restricted to the Antarctic. King Aptenodytes patagonicus 1 million pairs...subantarctic islands and peninsulas. Ad%E9lie Pygoscelis adeliae 4,169,390 breeding pairs...is restricted to the Antarctic. Gentoo Pygoscelis papua 300,000 pairs...circumpolar in subantarctic and antarctic waters. Chinstrap Pygoscelis antarctica : 6.5 million pairs...antarctic and subantarctic islands. Rockhopper Eudyptes chrysocome 3.5 million pairs...subantarctic islands. Macaroni Eudyptes chrysolophus 11,654,000 pairs...subantarctic islands in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Royal Eudyptes schlegeli 850,000 pairs...Macquarie and Campbell {Islands;} also around the New Zealand coast. Fiordland crested Eudyptes pachyrhynchus 1 0,000 pairs...subantarctic islands and New Zealand Erect-crested Eudyptes sclateri more than 200,000 {pairs...Australia;} New {Zealand;} and Bounty, Campbell, and Auckland Islands. Snares Island Eudyptes robustus 33,000 pairs...restricted to Snares Island.Yellow-eyed Megadyptes antipodes 1,855 pairs...southeast New Zealand. Fairy Eudyptula minor less than 1 million total birds....southern Australia and New Zealand. Magellanic Spheniscus magellanicus 4.5 to 10 million birds...Falkland Islands. Humboldt Spheniscus humboldti 20,000 total birds...west coast of South {America;coast} of Peru and Chile African Spheniscus demersus 50,000 to 171,000 pairs...South African waters Galapagos Spheniscus mendiculus 6,000 to 15,000 total birds http://www.seaworld.org/infobooks/Penguins/appendix.html
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