Whale Meat Again
9 SeptemberArchaeologists have discovered the 200-year-old remains of a 7 metre-long, half-tonne whale on the foreshore of the river Thames in Greenwich. According to The Independent it was, like Moby Dick in Herman Melville's novel, a whale of great age and it probably became stranded on the beach or was harpooned in the Thames estuary. The skeleton will eventually be taken to the Natural History Museum but it's going on display in the foyer at the Museum in Docklands from today until the 14th of September. Interestingly, around the time that this prince of whales met its maker, Greenwich was the centre of the London whaling industry - 78 British whalers out of 140 all told were based here, around Enderby's Wharf on Greenwich Peninsula near The O2. You've got less than a week if you want to see this ex-giant of the deep so dash off to Canary Wharf for a look. If you want to find out more about the whaling business, or any other maritime matters, then it's the National Maritime Museum you want, right here in Greenwich - they know everything.
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