Larry Finkle., age la, of Cobourg, Ont., for his question:

Are there penguins at the North Pole?

Penguins are birds of the southern hemisphere. However, only two varieties live on the icy continent of Antarctica. The rest live on lonely rocky islands of southern Africa, America and Australia. Some live on islands off Peru and some as far north as the Galapagos islands right at the equator off the western coast of South America. None live at the North Pole or on the cold bleak shores which surround the Arctic Ocean.

There was a time when a bird which was called a penguin lived in the northern regions. He was the great auk. And at one time he lived with countless thousands of his relatives along the shores of Greenland, Iceland, and Newfoundland. This big fat flightless bird said goodbye to a sad world more than 100 years ago. He was slaughtered without mercy by seal and whale hunters.