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Haurongo: Perano, Joseph August

Two men inside the mouth of a whale, Tipi Bay, Marlborough Sounds, between 1912 and 1924

Two men inside the mouth of a whale, Tipi Bay, Marlborough Sounds, between 1912 and 1924

In an image that would make conservationists shudder, Joseph August Perano (left) and one of his workers, Arthur Heberley, pose inside the mouth of one of the many whales harpooned in Cook Strait and towed to Perano's whaling station for processing.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: PAColl-8880

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Don Grady. 'Perano, Joseph August', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 1996. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/1670/two-men-inside-the-mouth-of-a-whale-tipi-bay-marlborough-sounds-between-1912-and (accessed 4 June 2026).