After an eruption on Deception Island killed off the second big penguin colony on Ardley Island, it took another 800 years to fully recover.

Gentoo penguin takes on a slope near its nesting colony. Stephen Roberts The gentoo penguin colony at Ardley Island have called this little piece of Antarctica home for nearly 7,000 years.

Scroll down for video The results, published in Nature this week, showed the penguins of the Ardley Island colony had been dramatically impacted by a nearby volcano at Deception Island.

Penguins have been pooping on Ardley Island off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula for a long, long time. The population there is one of the biggest and oldest Gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua ...