The unluckiest penguin colony on the planet keeps getting hit by volcanoes

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Many, many species of creature have come under hardship in the last 7,000 years. Some died off because they were ill-equipped, some because they were hunted — by man or beast — to extinction, and some because they were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. For a colony of penguins near the Antarctic Peninsula, it's most definitely the latter. During the past seven millennia, the flightless birds have had to endure not one, not two, but three separate volcanic eruptions that nearly wiped them out completely.

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