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Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Whales die in mass beaching

Photo: Project Jonah /AFP

Photo: Project Jonah /AFP

Volunteers trying to refloat stranded pilot whales at Colville Bay on the Coromandel Peninsula yesterday. Twenty-one pilot whales died and 42 were successfully refloated after stranding at the bay while another 105 whales died after beaching themselves on Farewell Spit, at the top of the South Island on December 26.

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