Peter lives in Antarctica, the coldest place on the planet. He endures temperatures as low as minus sixty degrees Celsius. He was born in a colony of penguins on the Ross Ice Shelf. 25,000 penguins live here, and with the chicks just recently hatched it is very noisy. Emperor penguins are the largest of the world's seventeen different penguin species. Standing over a meter tall, they weigh around 30kg. Penguins can't fly, but they can swim. Before he was born, Peter's mum and dad had to walk over 100km across the ice to get to the breeding grounds.