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Kōrero: Whaling

Whale steak

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Whale steak

By 1952, when this whale was being processed at the Perano factory, whale meat was no longer consumed in New Zealand. So this huge whale steak went down the slipway into the sea.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP-Zoology-Whales-02

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.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Jock Phillips, Whaling – Modern whaling and whale watching, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/6292/whale-steak (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Jock Phillips, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.