Officials confirmed that the adult male penguin—dubbed Gus—was discovered on Ocean Beach in the Australian coastal town of Denmark on Nov. 1, around 2,200 miles from his Antarctic home.

Gus, the adult male Emperor Penguin, was found on Nov. 1 on Ocean Beach sand dunes in the town of Denmark in temperate southwest Australia — about 3,500 kilometers (2,200 miles) north of the icy ...