Land in the Antarctic

Usage examples of adelie.

Mawson is now engaged upon in Adelie Land and on the Barrier farther west will contribute much to the elucidation of this question.

During the first weeks of our stay in the Bay of Whales, while we were still unloading stores, it was always a welcome distraction to see a flock of Adelie penguins, to the number of a dozen or so, suddenly jump out of the water, as though at a word of command, and then sit still for some moments, stiff with astonishment at the extraordinary things they saw.

They line up, dozens of Adelie penguins, on the icy edge of the sea, preparing in single file to dive off.

The scene shifts dramatically, from the close-up world of Gentoos, Kings, Emperors, Rock-hoppers, Macaroni, and Adelie, to a sunburnt panorama of colors dipped in the frigid glaze of this southern continent.

A resupply mission from a ship to the shore brings down a helicopter to within striking distance of a whole rookery of Adelie penguins.

Between the bars of the hutch, two young Adelie penguins peered, croaking to each other.

It was a singularly ugly place, inhabited only by few varieties of lichen and a rookery of Adelie penguins who found Seymour Island an ample source for the small stones they use to build their nests.

A singularly ugly place inhabited by only a few varieties' of lichen and a rookery of Adelie penguins.

A singularly ugly place inhabited by only a fewvarieties' of lichen and a rookery of Adelie penguins.

She pointed out to me the small Adelie penguins clustered on an ice-ledge, where they bowed and chattered to each other with the distant dignity of foreign diplomats at an Embassy social.

On a nearby ice-floe thousands of Adelie penguins, like spectators, stood in rows.

She struggled to draw in her breath, to tell Adelie that this ravaged weeping could not be from her.

At first, Adelie had tried giving him plants that would make him sleep valerian and manzanilla, vervain and violets.