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New Research Shows Shifting Fortunes of 2 Southern Ocean Penguin Species
New research shows population declines of more than 50% for chinstrap penguins on Elephant Island near the Antarctic Peninsula.
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Elephant Island, where British explorer Ernest Shackleton and his crew were marooned for several months in 1916, is today inhabited only by wildlife and sits at an ecological crossroads between Antarctica and the Southern Ocean.
In early 2020, funded by a grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts, scientists from Stony Brook and Northeastern universities spent 12 days surveying the island, a feat that had been accomplished only once before, by a British Joint Services expedition in 1970-71.