For months a huge iceberg blocked the path of hundreds of penguin chicks but somehow they survived.
In May a huge iceberg broke off from an Antarctic ice shelf, drifted, and came to a stop - right in front of “maybe the world’s unluckiest” penguins.newly-hatched fluffy chicksBut scientists endured a long, anxious wait until this point - and the chicks face another potentially deadly challenge in the coming months.The A83 iceberg broke away in May and blocked access to the penguin colony
These creatures teeter on the edge of life and death, and this was just the latest in a string of near-misses.It was once a stable colony and with 14,000 – 25,000 breeding pairs annually, the second biggest in the world. A few days ago, the sun rose again in Antarctica. The Sentinel-1 satellites that Peter uses orbited over Halley Bay, taking pictures of the ice sheet.
Scientists at the British research base at Halley will visit to verify the size and health of the colony.
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