#macquarie island

[sitting-on-me-bum]

King penguins line the shore at Macquarie Island; Fiordland, New Zealand.

Image credits: Aaron Russ; Steve Bradley

[wachinyeya]

[cannibalguy]

Convict Cannibals: FOR THE TERM OF HIS NATURAL LIFE (Norman Dawn, 1927)

For the Term of His Natural Life is a 1927 Australian film directed, produced and co-written by Norman Dawn. It is based on the 1874 novel by Marcus Clarke, and was the most expensive Australian silent film ever made. It remains one of the most famous Australian films of the silent era. John Laws, in the trailer above, calls it “the grandest of them all, the climax of Australia’s silent cinema.”…

[dougdimmadodo]

Fast Fauna Facts #27 - Royal Penguin (Eudyptes schlegeli)

Family: Penguin Family (Spheniscidae)

IUCN Conservation Status: Near Threatened

Named for their striking yellow crests which resemble crowns, Royal Penguins (not to be mistaken for the much larger Emperor Penguin or King Penguin) are found primarily on Macquarie Island (a small, largely rocky island between southern Aotearoa/New Zealand and northern Antarctica,) although they are also occasionally spotted on other neighbouring islands. Like most penguins Royal Penguins typically roost and nest in large, noisy colonies on rocky, well-vegetated beaches and leave the shore periodically to hunt for small fish, crustaceans and squids; members of this species rarely travel far from their colony when searching for prey, and as such several neighbouring colonies may coexist with limited competition for resources. Royal Penguins were historically extensively hunted for their blubber which was used to produce oil, but following the banning of penguin hunting on Macquarie in the late 1910's their populations have slowly recovered and are now believed to be stable.

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[drhoz]

#2632- Durvillaea antarctica - New Zealand Bull Kelp

AKA cochayuyo and rimurapa.

A large, robust species of kelp found on the coasts of Chile, southern Aotearoa, and Macquarie Island. Unlike many brown algae, the species lacks air bladders and instead maintain bouyancy with their unique honeycomb structure. They attach to rocky sea bottoms with a holdfast that grips so tightly that quite often the rock will break off before the plant does - this is a significant cause of erosion on some coastlines.

Stems and holdfasts of D. antarctica and D. incurvata are harvested from the coast of Chile and are used salads and stews.

Kelps and other brown algae contain chloroplasts with four cell membranes - this probably indicates they arose as a symbiosis of some ancestral eukaryotic organism and a green or red alga. Brown algae dominate habitats like the Kelp Forests and floating Sargassum beds, and can grow to over 50m in length in some species, and up to 50cm a day.

Timaru, Aotearoa New Zealand

[yeeshastone]

This months subspecies sheet is out! (already? I know!)

This species is known for their amazing cooking skills and golden crown of feathers. Every year a large cooking competition is held on the Schlegeli home island of Macquarie where the most amazing dishes are made. There are prizes for the most tasty dish, but also prize for those that can make a tasty dish with some of the most disgusting tasting ingredients. This is done in the spirit of the Schlegeli legend where their ancestors had to eat the horrible tasting crown of thorns plant to survive.

full subspecies sheet and legend can be found here

the amazing artist for this subspecies legend is

[gameraboy2]

Penguins on the beach and the remains of the wreck of "The Gratitude", Nuggets Beach, Macquarie Island, 1911

[projectourworld]

It would be good to connect with nature, undiscovered, untouched by humans. Lord Howe Island, Australia

‘The fortnightly supply ship, Island Trader, out of Port Macquarie, anchored in the lagoon under Mounts Lidgbird and Bower.’

Photograph: Neil Andrews / Guardian #nature

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Royal penguin (Eudyptes schlegeli) walks along the beach. Sandy bay, Macquarie Island, Australian Territory.

Photographer: Doug Gimesy

[ketrinadrawsalot]

The royal penguin's largest breeding colony is on Macquarie Island, between New Zealand and Antarctica. Though the penguin oil industry is long gone, they face new threats in the form of rats, cats, plastic pollution, and competition with commercial fishing.

[afeelgoodblog]

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/feb/23/macquarie-island-marine-park-southern-ocean-australia

Good news!

I love penguings

[valkyries-things]

DR. MARIA KLENOVA // MARINE BIOLOGIST

“She was a Russian/Soviet marine biologist. Klenova was first to fully map the seabed of the Barents Sea. She helped found Russian marine science and was the first woman scientist to do research in Antarctica. She was the first female scientist to go ashore at Macquarie Island (between New Zealand and Antarctica) and helped to create the first Antarctic atlas.”

[tcr55]

I do go on about the Harbour City, the Emerald City, Warrane (the name used by Gadigal people).

Sydney is a delight especially when you are by yourself, and it is empty.

Next to Mrs Macquarie’s Chair, looking across Woolloomooloo Bay, Garden Island sleeps.

[im-a-simp898]

eats u

Seriously? You're really serious right now? I cannot tell if I have sensory problems or if I actually just witnessed a statement with such an immense amount of sheer stupidity. You know, I have seen the most bizarre things from some guy in class jerking it to Ronald Reagan tentacle hentai, to people linking Chernobyl to penis-shaped aliens, but your comment is by far the most fucking idiotic thing I have ever had the kind of horrible fucking luck one requires to hear your stupid fucking post. From this point on, when I think of you, I will imagine a diseased turtle taking an enormous dump, with so much unbelievably large amounts of shit that all the protons inside of the methyl sulfide this horrendous crap contains spontaneously fuse into uranium-235 that I can use to shove a nuke up your sub-mental ass. You can write that off as an exaggeration but it is 100% true from the bottom of my already-empty heart. I legitimately think that you lack intelligence. I would say you're mentally unstable but then I couldn't blame the terribly ignorant fucking post on you. I literally cannot comprehend how amazingly dimwitted your dumb ass is. I have trouble understanding the laws of physics, space, and time as if all laws of reality have been devastated and disintegrated due to how dense you are. I could write a damn book on your lack of intelligence that is so long, one could read the entire Series of Unfortunate Events series, watch the entire Godfather trilogy, and invent fucking time travel itself before it could even be published under a first edition. Half-Life 3 would be released centuries before I could finish the first chapter describing your purely pointless state of mind. I honestly cannot tell if you were abused too much or not abused enough, because you clearly did not go to school enough to get a proper fucking education. To quote George Washington, "Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company." In that case, I'm getting as far away from you as possible. Hell, I'm actually unironically considering moving to Macquarie Island just to be isolated from your brain cell-killing words for the rest of my now-miserable life. I would rather go insane from thinking about you to the point where I pull a Cast Away and consider sexual relations with a volleyball than actually spending time anywhere near you. There is honestly no other way of putting it; you're an irritating asshole who contributes absolutely nothing to this already dreadful planet. And that's saying a lot considering the fact that I've heard of carbon dioxide levels reaching 400 parts per million, Donald Trump becoming president, and toxic fucking comment sections that contain your stupid bullshit. And again I go, being confused by whatever quantum physics you are using to defy the laws of physics with your stupidity, to the point where I'm saying you are worse than yourself. I have nothing else that is most definitely as horrible as you to compare to except you yourself. How does that make you feel? Like a turtle taking a nuclear shit? I really don't have a single shit to give anyway, because you are living proof that there is no hope for humanity left. Really went downhill after that whole thing where Rome fell; that made a lot of people pissed off. But not as pissed off as I am after reading your stupid shit. No, buddy, if I should even call you that, I am not pissed off at your comment. I am FURIOUS. I am so furious that I will personally take that radioactive turtle shit myself just so I can rid the world of your baffling levels of unadulterated doltishness. You are more dull than oxygenated magnesium or even a samurai sword that hasn't been sharpened for a thousand years. And you better be glad that the sword is dull, because if it wasn't, it would be shoved up your ass just like the nuclear turtle shit. I am so fucking angry that even watching an Adam Sandler movie will make me happier than I am right now.

[drhoz]

#2337 - Pseudocyphellaria glabra - Hairless Specklebelly

Originally described as Sticta glabra in 1844. But other synonyms include Sticta delisea, freycinetii and fulvocinerea, Celidium dubium, Delisea pseudosticta, Homostegia dubia, Imbricaria borreri var. coralloidea, Lobaria freycinetii and fulvocinerea, Parmelia borreri var. coralloidea and isabellina, Phanosticta freycinetii, Plectocarpon pseudosticta, Pseudocyphellaria delisea and freycinetii.

Found in SE Australia including Tasmania, New Zealand, Argentina, and Chile, Lord Howe Island, Macquarie Island, and the subantarctic islands of New Zealand.

Sometimes parasitised by Arthonia pseudocyphellariae, a fungus first discovered in New Zealand.

Whakapapa Village, North Island Volcanic Plateau, New Zealand