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King George Island

King George Island (South Shetland Islands)
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About King George Island

King George Island is the largest of the South Shetland Islands, lying 120ย km off the coast of Antarctica in the Southern Ocean. The island was named after King George III.

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These are chinstrap penguins, so they live in the Antarctic and around the South Pacific, and there were scientists studying them recently on King George Island and they found that they nap over 10,000 times a day but they only nap for about four seconds at a time on average.

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Coordinates: -62.0333, -58.3500

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