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

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There are 17 species of penguin, most of which live in the Southern Hemisphere , home base to six stellar species: the Adelie, Chinstrap, Emperor, Gentoo, King and Macaroni.

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Tourists are a vital part of the economy, as they come ashore to places like Bluff Cove lagoon to watch the Gentoo and King penguins, and enjoy a proper Falklands cream tea.

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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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This left us with a choice -- go back to our original set of Gentoo instructions (which will work just fine with the TiVo HD), or look for an easier way to get the job done.

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From there, visitors transfer to a boat for a short ride to Isla Martillo, a research station that monitors the 3, 000 pairs of Magellanic penguins and a small colony of gentoo penguins that nest here between September and April.

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