there is no nest in which they might remain

Yes, quite true, Father Steve, and in this they are quite different from other nesting birds.

But they have nesting areas which they return to every breeding season like salmon, always returning to the same area, generation after generation.

It is ironic that what is best about this breeding ground is also what is worst about it.

The breeding ground is in the center of the ice pack where the winters are the most severe and most perilous, for penquins and their eggs alike.

But here the ice is deepest, and the danger of losing their eggs to melting ice in the Spring is least.

How cruel this blessing. As cruel as chemotherapy must be to a cancer patient.