His request brought to mind one of our favourite movies of the past decade or so - “The March of the Penguins.” It documented the amazing story of the annual, multiple and arduous 100 + km. migrations of female and male Emperor Penguins for food, mating and incubation.
The graphic below depicts their yearly pilgrimages. The four words describing the activities during the winter months of June – July and August fail to fully capture the agonies of the males, for whom the delights of May are but a distant memory.
Penguins Lifecycle
One of the haunting images of the movie is shown below. In it, the male penguins, left to shelter their eggs on their feet throughout the howling gales and numbing cold of the endless Antarctic winter, send out a “cri de coeur” – a cry to be transported to a far more temperate locale to raise their chicks. If they could, they’d love to be whisked there in a fraction of a minute!
Penguins Cri de Coeur
However, the exact spot specified by the males is not ideal for nesting. Help them find a better location by identifying a man-made structure at this exact spot, converting its common name to two repeated digits and walking/biking/skiing 63 times the length in meters of one of these digits along the opposite bearing you used to walk from the nearest parking space to the exact spot.
You can check to see if you’ve correctly identified the exact spot to which the males yearn to “fly” at GeoChecker.com.