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DURING the wintering of the Vega large quantities of the bones of the whale were found on the beach. These at first were supposed to be the remains of whales that had been killed by the natives or by American whalers. On examination it was found that they must be sub-fossil. This was confirmed by the natives, who stated that no whale had driven on land in the memory of man. The remains were found to belong to four or five, different species, of which Balena mysticetus, or a nearly allied type, was the most common.
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The Swedish North-East Passage Expedition 1 . Nature 21, 57–58 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/021057b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/021057b0