Travel Bug Dog Tag Penguin Peter

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Owner:
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Released:
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Origin:
South Africa
Recently Spotted:
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Current Goal

To travel from cache to cache telling his story

About This Item

Penguin Peter

Peter the Penguin became a celebrity when in June 2000 a ship called the Treasure spilled a large amount of oil near Cape Town, South Africa which threatened the two penguin colonies on Robben Island* and Dassen Island. Peter was one of the twenty thousand birds taken from the islands before they could be affected by the spill and transported by road to Port Elizabeth (+- 700km) and released into the sea. The idea was that the spill would have been cleared up by the time they arrived back. Radio transmitters were attached to Peter and two companions and their journey was tracked by satellite. To read more of this interesting story go to http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/stats/adu/oilspill/sapmap.htm

*where Nelson Mandela spent the largest part of his 27 years in prison.

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Write note 4/10/2017 tomtwogates posted a note for it   Visit Log

got it wrong it was actually discovered in 2015 - why would you only log it in 2017 then??
Write note 4/9/2017 tomtwogates posted a note for it   Visit Log

seems like this one is not missing - it was discovered on 9 April
Discovered It 4/9/2017 carse discovered it   Visit Log

set ved Orø – Madpakke event 2015
Mark Missing 10/3/2016 thomfre marked it as missing   Visit Log

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Dropped Off 3/24/2016 Staalulla placed it in Haugesund after dark Rogaland, Norway - 63.68 miles  Visit Log

La igjen i Haugesund after dark
Discovered It 12/31/2015 IsabellaMolly discovered it   Visit Log

Set i 2015 - beklager den sene logning - tak for synet
Seen in 2015 - sorry about the belated log - thanks for sharing
Retrieve It from a Cache 10/14/2015 Staalulla retrieved it from Norges første, i Bergen, The first cache in Norway Vestland, Norway   Visit Log

fant i bergen drar videre til haugesund
Dropped Off 10/10/2015 narten84 placed it in Norges første, i Bergen, The first cache in Norway Vestland, Norway - 393.18 miles  Visit Log
  • peter at the first cache in torway. peter at the first cache in torway.
Discovered It 10/4/2015 Lenko89 discovered it   Visit Log

Oppdaget i løpet av sommeren enten på Event eller i cacher
Visited 7/27/2015 narten84 took it to På tide med ein pause....? AK#50 Vestland, Norway   Visit Log
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