While penguins are certainly found in large numbers on the Seventh Continent,
that’s not the only place you’ll ever see them. Many penguin species
make their homes in South America, Africa and Australia instead.The African penguin, for
instance, lives on the Penguin Islands off the coast of Namibia and
South Africa. The little penguin, the smallest species of penguin, is
from Australia and New Zealand. And the Galapagos penguin can
be found on the Galapagos Islands, in the Pacific Ocean west of Ecuador.
Because these islands straddle the equator, these particular birds are
the only wild penguins that may live at least part of the time in the
Northern Hemisphere.
