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EVERY year thousands of whales migrate up and down the coast. During winter they leave their feeding grounds near Antarctica to breed in warmer tropical waters before returning to their feeding grounds. These days the whales provide a real boost to the tourism industry along the coast. The rusting ships at Tangalooma point to a much darker past when the area that is now a popular resort was once a whaling station. The ships that now rest here went out into the ocean and slaughtered the whales, bringing them back here to be processed for their blubber. This drove the whale populations to near extinction. Fortunately the whaling has long stopped and the whale population is on the mend, with numbers now growing by ten percent per year. |
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