In turn, the Adélie penguins split off from the other members of the genus around 19 million years ago.

There are 38 colonies of Adélie penguins, and there are over 5 million Adélies in the Ross Sea region.

Adélie penguins live in groups called colonies.

Adélie penguins can swim up to.

Adélie penguins are preyed on by leopard seals, skua, and occasionally, orcas.

Like all penguins, the Adélie is highly social, foraging and nesting in groups.

Adélie penguins arrive at their breeding grounds in October or November, at the end of winter and the start of spring.

Young Adélie penguins who have no experience in social interaction may react to false cues when the penguins gather to breed.

" Levick observed the Adélie penguins at Cape Adare, the site of the largest Adelie penguin rookery in the world.

Adélie penguins living in the Ross Sea region in Antarctica and migrate an average of about during the year as they follow the sun from their breeding colonies to winter foraging grounds and back again.

The coastal parts of the sea contain a number of rookeries of Adélie and Emperor penguins, which have been observed at a number of places around the Ross Sea, both towards the coast and outwards in open sea.

Physical abuse has been described among animals too, for example among the Adélie penguins.

The Adélie penguin lives on sea ice but needs the ice-free land to breed.

In 1816, he married Adélie Pepin, daughter of a clockmaker from Toulon, who was openly disliked by Dumont ’ s mother, who thought her inappropriate for her son and refused to meet her and, later on, her grandsons from the marriage.

In the summer of 1912 – 13, Mertz and Ninnis were chosen by Mawson to accompany him on the Far Eastern Party, using the dogs to push rapidly from the expedition's base in Adélie Land towards Victoria Land.

# Adélie Land (), the French claim on the Antarctica continent ;

The Kerguelen Islands, along with the islands of Amsterdam and St. Paul, and the Crozet archipelago were officially annexed by France in 1893, and were included as possessions in the French constitution in 1924 ( in addition to that portion of Antarctica claimed by France and known as Adélie Land ; as with all Antarctic territorial claims, France's possession on the continent is held in abeyance until a new international treaty is ratified that defines each claimant's rights and obligations ).

Isabelline ( colour ) | Isabelline Adélie Penguin on Gourdin Island.

The Adélie penguin is known to feed mainly on Antarctic krill, ice krill, Antarctic silverfish, and Glacial Squid ( diet varies depending on geographic location ) during the chick-rearing season.

The Dumont d ' Urville Station () is a French scientific station located in Antarctica on Île des Pétrels, archipelago of Pointe Géologie () in Adélie Land.

" On 2 December 1911, after final preparations and loading were completed in Hobart, the Aurora sailed south ; she stopped briefly at Macquarie Island, where a wireless relay base was established, and reached the site of the expedition's main base at Cape Denison in Adélie Land, on the Antarctic continent, in early January.

Adélie Land ( Terre Adélie ) is a French territory on the Antarctic mainland.

The name of Christine Island was proposed by the United States Antarctic Research Program ( USARP ) biologist Dietland Müller-Schwarze after his wife Christine Müller-Schwarze, who studied Adélie Penguins with him on the island in 1971-1972.

There is a large Adélie Penguin colony on a raised beach called Cadwalader Beach at the south-western end of the island.

The islands, along with Adélie Land, the Crozet Islands and the Amsterdam and Saint Paul Islands are part of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands and are administered as a separate district.

The Adélie Penguin ( Pygoscelis adeliae ) is a species of penguin common along the entire Antarctic coast.

miles ) in the French Republic ( excluding Adélie Land in Antarctica where sovereignty is suspended since the signing of the Antarctic Treaty in 1959 ).

The territory is also often called the French Southern Lands () or French Southern Territories, which excludes Adélie Land where French sovereignty is not recognized internationally.

* January 21 – Dumont D ' Urville discovers Adélie Land in Antarctica, claiming it for France.

France contributed with Dumont d ' Urville Station and Charcot Station in Adélie Land.

The Adélie Penguin is one of three species in the genus Pygoscelis.

Regularly this attitude lead to the demise of an Adélie penguin, " Then the final fatal steps forward are taken and they come within reach.

Due to their obstinate personality traits Cherry-Garrard held the birds in great regard, “ Whatever Adélie penguin does has individuality, and he lays bare his whole life for all to see.

With a reduction in sea ice and a scarcity of food, populations of the Adélie penguin have dropped by 65 % over the past 25 years.

Chinstrap penguins overwinter to the north, beyond the ice, but return during the spring to breed.

Millions of macaroni penguins occupy huge territories on the islands to breed, as do thousands of albatrosses.

The surplus of male penguins allows the female penguins to select more experienced male partners as soon as the females are physically able to breed.

Most emperor penguins breed in East Antarctica

Crested penguins breed on subantarctic islands in the southern reaches of the world's oceans ; the greatest diversity occurring around New Zealand and surrounding islands.

Royal Penguins breed only on Macquarie Island and, like other penguins, spend much of their time at sea, where they are assumed to be pelagic.

Sooty shearwaters, little blue penguins, the threatened New Zealand dotterel and variable oystercatchers also breed on the island.

Edinburgh Zoo was the first zoo in the world to house and to breed penguins.