and went for another walk on the island. It’s a UNESCO World Heritage Site because of its ecology and because it’s where the oceanic mantle has been exposed by plate tectonics between the Australian plate and the Antarctic plate. Unfortunately the actual geological area isn’t within the area we were allowed to visit, but at this point we were very close.
We saw gentoo penguins in amongst some of the station buildings.
There was a cormorant there building a nest.
And plenty of seals.
We walked along the path to the climb up to the lookout,
and saw some of the boilers that sealers used to melt down the seals and penguins to make oil.
We went up to the lookout where we could see the west side of the island.
In the afternoon we went around the island, and saw the largest colony of king penguins
and the west side of the island before continuing our journey towards the Auckland Islands.
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