Chuzo Furuya, Who Brought Back a Penguin Specimen From the Falkland Islands in 1911
On March 3, 1911, the Commercial School's training ship “Taisei Maru” called at Stanley in the Falkland Islands during a voyage around the world. During their stay, Captain Chuzo Furuya and his crew visited a penguin colony. After returning to Japan, Captain Furuya donated a Gentoo Penguin Pygoscelis papua specimen, which he had brought back from the Falkland Islands, to the Tokyo Imperial Museum.
Authors
- Minoru Fukuda (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5321-1843)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology
- Published
- 2025-12-14
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3312/jyio.57.151
- Primary Topic
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00