Bruno "Penguin" Zehnder (born 8 September 1945 in

Bad Ragaz Bad Ragaz is a municipality in the ''Wahlkreis'' (constituency) of Sarganserland in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. It is the home of a famous natural spring and is a popular spa and health resort destination. History Bad Ragaz is fi ...

, died 7 July 1997 at the Mirny Station in Antarctica) was a Swiss photographer. He specialized in

penguin Penguins (order (biology), order List of Sphenisciformes by population, Sphenisciformes , family (biology), family Spheniscidae ) are a group of Water bird, aquatic flightless birds. They live almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere: on ...

s, as he was particularly fascinated by the

emperor penguin The emperor penguin (''Aptenodytes forsteri'') is the tallest and heaviest of all living penguin species and is endemic to Antarctica. The male and female are similar in plumage and size, reaching in length and weighing from . Feathers of th ...

s and their life on the pack ice. He died in 1997, as the result of getting lost in a snowstorm.

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Swiss photographers 1945 births 1997 deaths Accidental deaths in Antarctica {{Switzerland-bio-stub