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The 100th post: the Falking Penguins

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Two generations of Gentoo penguins A small group of King Penguins. This is one of two churches with a whale bone arch, the other is in Yorkshire, England. A comically penguin-shaped tourist posing near the Newspaper offices. A Memorial to those who lost their lives during the Falkland War. Our fourth port of call was in the heavily-disputed British Falkland Islands. Or the heavily-disputed Argentinian Islas Malvinas . It depends who asks. Personally, I can't say that I formed an opinion one way or another. On one hand, they are undoubtedly within Argentina's maritime border. On the other hand, at no time during the islands' history did they belong to Argentina. It is one of those situations where it is easy to be swayed by either side of argument. Luckily, I was not there to choose sides. I was there to see penguins. Lots and lots of glorious penguins. In order to this, I had to do the one thing th