9 thoughts on “ New Zealand Whales - The Bluegrass Expedition - Settling In (Vinyl, LP, Album) ”

1. Source: Geoffrey J. Cox, Whale watch: a guide to New Zealand’s whales and dolphins. Auckland: William Collins, ; and Rob Svisted and Nadine Gibbs, Areas of special significance for marine mammals in New Zealand. Poster. Wellington: Department of Conservation,

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2. New Zealand has its own population of the largest animal of the world - the blue whale. That's according to US and Kiwi researchers who say a group of blue whales found around the South Taranaki.

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4. In some, whales were a sign indicating to a tribe that it should settle in a particular place. In others, whales were a guide. A legend highlighted in the acclaimed New Zealand film, ‘Whalerider’, has a whale bearing the tribal ancestor, Paikea, to New Zealand after his canoe sinks on the voyage from Hawaiiki, the ancestral home of Maori.

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5. Commercial whaling in New Zealand waters began late in the 18th century and continued until It was a major economic activity for Europeans in New Zealand in the first four decades of the 19th century. Nineteenth-century whaling was based on hunting the southern right whale and the sperm whale and 20th-century whaling concentrated on the humpback whale.

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6. Nov 30,  · Media caption Almost whales die in mass stranding. The pictures are striking: dozens of whales lie stranded on an idyllic beach in a remote part of New Zealand.

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7. You can spot whales throughout the East Coast of New Zealand, including Auckland's beautiful Hauraki Gulf and the wonderful Kaikoura. Find out more about Whale Watching in New Zealand.

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8. A new population of genetically distinct blue whales was discovered in the South Taranaki Bight (STB) between the North and South Islands of New Zealand. Researchers have been monitoring the area as its a region with a great deal of human activity from gas and oil extraction operations.

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9. New Zealand history. New Zealand was a major centre for whaling throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, as large whales migrated up the east coast of both the main islands, and used some harbours for calving. Blue whales were not hunted until the s, because their speed made them harder to catch than sperm, right and humpback whales.

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