It was just the fourth time over the past 100 years that a royal penguin has been found on the North Island of New Zealand.

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Off South-West Africa, the discovery in 1843 of the tiny island of Ichaboe, covered in 25 feet of penguin and gannet excrement, led to a guano rush followed by a mutiny and battles.

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