The Ice Returns

• Main Authors: Zalasiewicz, Jan, Williams, Mark
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Oxford University Press 2012
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Argentine; Marambio; Patagonia; Seymour; Seymour Island; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199593576.003.0011

Among the marvellous fossils retrieved from Seymour Island—a thin strip of land near the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, is a giant penguin that lived forty million years ago. Called simply ‘Nordenskiöld’s giant penguin’, after one of the great early Antarctic explorers, it is not the kind...