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One friend of mine has always been slightly obsessed with the penguins.

He has made a huge collection of toy-penguins, joined WWF and installed Linux.

Once upon a time he stumbled upon a website of German Antarctica Station, and there were three webcameras.

And there were a lot of penguins for sure.
So he wrote a script to pull images from the webcameras each 30 minutes and ran it, and had checked images from time to time.

Recently I discovered that I have a copy of the archive of these images for almost two years.

The website is dead long ago, although I’m sure about the Station itself.

But I’ve cleaned the images and compiled some antarctic time-lapse short movies:

You can watch it or open the playlist.