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Migaloo jumping photographed by Jonas Liebschner onboard Whale Watching Sydney Part of a Song by Migaloo recorded in 1998. Migaloo ("whitefella" in some Aboriginal languages) is an all-white humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) that was first sighted on the 28 June 1991 at the Australian east coast near Byron Bay. [1]
Migaloo (whose name means "white fella" in multiple Aboriginal languages) [14] was first spotted in 1991 in the waters off Byron Bay. [15] Believed to have been born in 1986, [16] he is considered to be the most famous humpback whale in the world. [17] In 2004, skin samples were taken by researchers interested in the whales genetics. [15]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 19 January 2025. Large baleen whale species Humpback whale Temporal range: 7.2–0 Ma Pre๊ ๊ O S D C P T J K Pg N Late Miocene – Recent Size compared to an average human Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) CITES Appendix I (CITES) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom ...
Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh was a comedy show broadcast from 1944 to 1950 and from 1951 to 1954 by BBC Radio, and from 1950 to 1951 by Radio Luxembourg.It was written by and starred Richard Murdoch and Kenneth Horne as officers in a fictional Royal Air Force station coping with red tape and the inconveniences and incongruities of life in the Second World War.
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Other uses include tourism, filming, water sporting, rescuing and spying. Some are as long as 285 metres (935 ft) with capacity to stay underwater for several weeks (e.g. Migaloo submarine yacht). Those personal submarines which are available for sale cost from US$16,000 to 2+ Billion USD.
Sea turtles and dugongs can be observed around Bedarra Island and recently Migaloo, the white humped back whale, was spotted from a lookout engaged in its annual migration north (late June). [ 5 ] The island has few mammals; the largest is the echidna and there is also the fawn footed melomys , a small native rodent named after Edmund James ...
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