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Duh. The bears live in bear land (arctic as in arctus as in bear). Penguins thus literally live in no bear land (ant-arctic).
TIL! I only knew "ursus," which is of course Latin.
But apparently Arctus was a centaur named bear, whereas "arktos" is closer to the ancient Greek word for bear....
Still leads to Arctic of course.
Fun fact, we don't actually know the real name for bears.
The name Arthur probably comes from that lost word