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-[[File:King-Penguin.jpg|300px|left]]
+[[File:Lindsey Islands.png|300px|left]]
-The '''[[king penguin]]''' (''Aptenodytes patagonicus'') is a large species of [[penguin]], second only to the [[emperor penguin]] in size. There are two subspecies: ''A. p. patagonicus'' and ''A. p. halli''; ''patagonicus'' is found in the South Atlantic and halli found at the Kerguelen Islands and Crozet Island, Prince Edward Islands, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, and Macquarie Island.
+The '''[[Lindsey Islands]]''' (73°37′S 103°18′W) are a group of islands lying just off the northwest tip of the [[Canisteo Peninsula]] in the [[Amundsen Sea]].
-King penguins eat small fish, mainly lanternfish, and squid. They are less reliant on [[krill]] and other crustaceans than most [[Southern Ocean]] predators. On foraging trips king penguins repeatedly dive to over 100 meters (300 ft), and have been recorded at depths greater than 300 metres (1,000 ft). King penguins breed on the subantarctic islands at the northern reaches of Antarctica, South Georgia, and other temperate islands of the region. King penguins do not live or breed in [[Westarctica]].
+The island group consists of one large island that is several kilometers wide, and a smaller island to its west with several nearby outliers further west. The total land area of the collective islands is approximately 2,100 acres. Some descriptions (e.g. Lindsey 1995) include the island group 5 kilometers to the southwest as within the Lindsey group. However, these were later named the [[Schaefer Islands]] by the U.S. Advisory Committee on [[Antarctic]] Names. Available mapping incorrectly shows many of the individual islands within the group as merged together.
-American zoologist Gerry Kooyman revolutionized the study of penguin foraging behavior in 1971 when he published his results from attaching automatic dive-recording devices to emperor penguins, and recording a dive of 235 meters (771 ft) by a king penguin in 1982.
+Approximately 52 breeding pairs of [[Adélie penguin]]s were present on the Lindsey Islands as estimated from March 2011 satellite imagery. The colony occupies the eastern and southeastern coasts of the eastern island, and most of three main outliers and the northern half of the largest of the western group of islands.
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+'''([[Lindsey Islands|Full Article...]])'''