do they have penguins in greenland
No, there are no wild penguins in Greenland.
Quick Scoop
Greenland has an Arctic climate and sits in the far Northern Hemisphere, while penguins are birds of the Southern Hemisphere. Wild penguins naturally live in places like Antarctica, subâAntarctic islands, southern South America, southern Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and the GalĂĄpagos region just south of the equator.
The only penguin that reaches near the equator is the GalĂĄpagos penguin, and even that species lives far from Greenland in the Pacific Ocean. Tourism and wildlife guides for Greenland explicitly note that there are no penguin species living there, despite the icy, snowy landscape that might make visitors expect them.
Instead of penguins, Greenland is known for other blackâandâwhite seabirds such as puffins, plus Arctic wildlife like seals, whales, and Arctic foxes. So if someone says they saw a âpenguinâ in Greenland, it was almost certainly a puffin, another seabird, or even a snow sculpture joke rather than a real penguin.
