Antipodes Islands
Britishplural noun
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Erect-crested penguins in the harsh Antipodes Islands in the South Pacific lay an egg that’s doomed to die.
From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2022
Erect-crested penguins that inhabit the harsh Antipodes Islands in the South Pacific have a strange parenting move — laying an egg that’s doomed to die.
From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2022
The research team arrived at the Antipodes Islands in September 1998 and stayed through the breeding season until November.
From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2022
In 1998, a team of researchers made the three-and-a-half day trek to the isolated Antipodes Islands in the South Pacific to study one of its few residents: the enigmatic and endangered, erect-crested penguin.
From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2022
Antipodes Islands, a group of small uninhabited islands in the South Pacific Ocean, about 460 miles S.E. by E. of New Zealand; so called from being nearly antipodal to Greenwich.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various
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