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Whales:

Sperm whale , North Shore Skegness  15/02/06

    Picture courtesy  A. Powley

   October 2005 a  Minke Whale, weighing approximately  

    three  tonnes was found at Gibraltar Point. 

                                                     (Now exhibited in science Museum)

Previously a whale  was washed up off Howden’s Pullover in 1974. It was a 50ft Californian whale. They fill up with gases as they decompose and it exploded! It was a sperm whale. The British Museum examined it. It was 55ft long and they said it was 50 to 60-years-old. It was the eleventh sperm whale to wash up that century on the Lincolnshire coast line. The twelfth one was washed up in Skegness in 1985 – it works out one is washed up every seven years or so.

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