Huge tabular icebergs, frosty slopes dotted with adorable gentoo and chinstrap penguins.

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The other image released by the organisers was a shot of chinstrap penguins, entitled Back In, Front Out, by Finnish photographer Esa Malkonen.

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During his time at the penguin rookery in the Antarctic, Mr Malkonen became increasingly fascinated with the activities of the 100, 000 or so chinstrap penguins.

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The peninsula is a haven for wildlife: humpback whales in the crystal blue water, elephant seals beached on Pleneau Island, squawking adelie, chinstrap and gentoo penguins, and wheeling cormorants, petrels and terns.

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In mid-December, the Antarctic summer, a colony of chinstrap and Gentoo penguins are in their rookeries, cawing and carrying pebbles for their stone nests as males and females take turns warming their large, speckled eggs.

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