Great auk (Pen Gwyn in Welsh), or, because the great auk had such large white circles on its head. When European explorers discovered what today are known as penguins in the Southern Hemisphere, they noticed their similar appearance to the great auk and named them after this bird, although biologically, they are not closely related. Whalers also lumped the northern and southern birds together under the common name "woggins". Standing about tall and weighing approximately as adult birds, the flightless great auk was the second-largest member of both its family and the order Charadriiformes, surpassed only by the mancalline "Miomancalla". The great
Pre-1970 Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone seasons Pre-1970 Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone seasons The Pre-1970 Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone seasons ran year-round from July 1 to June 30, reaching their peaks mid-February to early March. For storms in the South-West Indian Ocean, see here. The Banda Islands were hit in March. The cyclone blew the roof off of almost every house and killed 85% of nutmeg trees. A tropical cyclone hit the Banda Islands. A cyclone hit the island of Roti in April, killing 75 and destroying many homes. Around this time, a tropical cyclone hit the Kei Islands, uprooting many trees. On 20 April 1872, a