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The curiously named Aitcho Islands get their name from ’H.O.’, i.e. Hydrographic Office of the UK Admiralty who mapped them in 1935. These days the inhabtants are mostly gentoo and chinstrap penguins (below a chinstrap). As this is peak hatching time, many gentoos had chicks peeking out from between their legs, where it is safeContinue reading “Aitcho Islands, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica”