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The statue Geirfugl in Reykjavík.
Bessastaðir, the residence of the President of Iceland in the background.

Geirfugl or The Great Auk, Pinguinus impennis, formerly of the genus Alca) is a bird that became extinct in the mid-19th century.
It was the only species in the genus Pinguinus, a group which included several flightless giant auks from the Atlantic, to survive until modern times.
It was also known as garefowl (from the Old Norse geirfugl, meaning "spear-bird", a reference to the shape of its beak), or penguin.
The last population lived on Geirfuglasker ("Great Auk Rock") off Iceland.
This island was a volcanic rock surrounded by cliffs which made it inaccessible to humans,
but in 1830 the rock submerged, and the birds moved to the nearby island Eldey which was accessible from a single side.
The last pair, found incubating an egg, were killed there on 3 July 1844.

Today, around 75 eggs of the Great Auk remain in museum collections, along with 24 complete skeletons and 81 mounted skins.

Info from Wikipedia.