Interestingly, a lone Southern Rockhopper penguin - 1500 miles from home - turned up in Madagascar in January 1956, according to this National Geographic article. That seems to be the sole example, though (other than the DreamWorks cartoon kind, of course).
Got 8/12, missing most of the south american countries. Aside from Chile and Argentina (and those two countries do get darn close to the antarctic ocean at their very southern ends) I didn't think there were penguins that far north!
The sea on the west coast of South America is really, really cold - must be a current direct from Antarctica - so penguins in Ecuador are plausible (though I only guessed that answer cos I ran out of southern countries to try).
you're overstating it Findlay. Those three people voted against the Falklands continuing as a UK dependency, not joining Argentina. At least one of them was thought to be in favour of independence. Argentina dismissed the result on the basis that there could be no legitimacy in the political desires of an 'implanted population'. Bad news for the U.S declaration of independence there.
Tsingtao (Qingdao) belonged to Germany for a few years too. Spain once controlled Argentina, maybe that should back to where it was a couple hundred years ago.
"....commemorate Empire Day, when we try to remember the names of all those from the Sudbury area who so gallantly gave their lives to keep China British."
@ShrinkingViolet Don't forget the families of the 5,000 or so Nazis that fled to Argentina. Magneto didn't get them all! And all the others who came from Germany, France, Switzerland, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Poland, Albania, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, Russia, Ukraine, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Bulgaria, Armenia, Greece, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia...
The Falkland Islands have never belonged to Argentina. Spain has a stronger claim to them than Argentina does. It's rather like stating that Aruba should be given 'back' to Venezuela.
OK, Kowalski, another question for you: How do the penguin census takers decide if a penguin is accidental or vagrant? "That one looks like riff-raff, must be a vagrant; this scruffy one over here - clearly present accidentally; but this fine, well mannered immaculately groomed specimen is clearly, well, a non-accidental non-vagrant." Whatever you call those.
If I got this from the source correctly breeding plays a role. Some species seem just to breed elsewhere. That probably makes the difference between native and vagrant penguins. Other than that I'm guessing it's observation or residues left as "evidence". Accidental is probably as easy as finding a single penguin or few penguins somewhere where they have never been seen before which is unlikely as they usually live in larger groups. Maybe they broke out of a zoo like the penguins in the movie Madagascar. That's just what I'm thinking.
Given that they are mostly marine animals, it will be in the sea... Anyway, according to Google there was a case in 2011 when 600 dead Magellan pinguins washed up on the Uruguayan shore.
I only ended up with 12 and just typed in answers till i got the 13th. I went and double checked your source you listed and they only list 12 countries, and not surprisingly, didn't mention the one I was missing either. I would remove the source as it is not accurate.
France should've been in this list aswell! They have the French oversees territories called 'TAAF' (Terres Atlantiques et Australes Françaises), which includes the Kerguelen for example, where you can find penguïns.
Norway is missing. Bouvet Island and Island of Peter 1 are Norwegian islands in the South Atlantic Ocean. Bouvet is home to Macaroni penguin and, to a lesser extent, Chinstrap penguin and Adélie penguin. Chinstrap and Adélie visit Peter 1 regularly, as does other types of penguin.
I have a couple questions. 1: Do areas like the Norwegian and French territories in the Antarctic ocean as well as other British territories such as South Georgia or Gough Island have a different status than the Falkland Islands? I'm at a loss as to why they don't make this list. 2: If accidental/vagrant visitors are included, as the caveat suggests, why is Madagascar not amongst the correct answers? OP even provided a source above. Other countries that should be on here include Congo and Gabon, see https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/species/birds/penguins/African_penguin.html
They have at least 4 species of penguins (4 and 3 subspecies of rockhopper penguin) and half the world's king penguins breed on the Crozet Islands (this is excluding Antarctic claims as with the other countries on the list)
"....commemorate Empire Day, when we try to remember the names of all those from the Sudbury area who so gallantly gave their lives to keep China British."
1. Greenland is part of the kingdom of Denmark
2. Those are polar bears think of it like this:
Polar bears are up north, and Penguins are down south.
They have at least 4 species of penguins (4 and 3 subspecies of rockhopper penguin) and half the world's king penguins breed on the Crozet Islands (this is excluding Antarctic claims as with the other countries on the list)