Viking's expedition team, in collaboration with Oceanites, has made a groundbreaking discovery of a new chinstrap penguin colony on Diaz Rock, near Astrolabe Island in Antarctica. This discovery, made during a visit in January 2024 by the Viking Octantis, marks the first survey of the chinstrap penguin colony on Astrolabe Island in nearly 40 years and reveals an additional colony previously unknown to science.

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