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Happy Feet washed ashore Peka Peka Beach on the north island of New Zealand in June.
The giant bird took a wrong turn and ended up on New Zealand's Peka Peka Beach after swimming 4,000 kilometres from Antarctica.
It was the first recorded sighting of an emperor penguin in New Zealand in more than 40 years.
Happy Feet has spent the past two months at Wellington Zoo, recovering from operations to remove sand and sticks from his stomach.
He will be housed in a specially designed travel crate designed to keep him cold and comfortable during the voyage.
Wellington Zoo chief executive Karen Fifield says Happy Feet will be released near Campbell Island, which is within the normal feeding range of Emperor penguins.
"He'll be on board for about four days and so once they are about four days out to sea, they'll be at about 53 degrees south which is the perfect point to release him," she said.
"I think we will all miss him. I think the world will miss him actually, but it's ready for him to go back and be an emperor penguin."
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