On a regular Friday afternoon, you’d expect the usual scene at the Ocean Beach in the small town of Denmark, Western Australia: sun, waves, and surfers. But this time around, there was more. A majestic male emperor penguin came out of the water.

A lone and lost emperor penguin turned up in a western Australian town, nearly 2,100 miles (3300km) away from its home in Antarctica. The male penguin arrived in Denmark town on Friday. It was the farthest north the bird had ever been seen.

An emperor penguin was spotted roaming a beach in Western Australia, marking the furthest north the species, which is native to Antarctica, has ever been recorded. Australia’s Department of Biodiversity,