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Whales bones on cart

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Whales bones on cart

Edgar Stead sold the skeleton to the Canterbury Museum for £500, £300 of which was raised by the public. Here the bones arrive outside the museum.

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Gerard Hutching, Whales – Blue whales and fin whales, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/7188/whales-bones-on-cart (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by Gerard Hutching, published 2 March 2009.