East Whitby framed through the whalebone arch
Introduction
The photograph on this page of East Whitby framed through the whalebone arch by Richard Law as part of the Geograph project.
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East Whitby framed through the whalebone arch
Image: © Richard Law Taken: 1 Sep 2011
At first glance, little looks to have changed since Image] was taken in the late 1970s. However, research reveals that even the bones are different. The earlier ones are from an Antarctic Fin whale, killed in the 1960s; after 30-odd years exposed to the elements on the Yorkshire coast, they'd become overly weathered, and were replaced around 2002 by a set of jawbones of an Arctic Bowhead, legally harvested by an Alaskan Inuit group in 1996.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.490105
Longitude
-0.616607