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New Zealand: Collins. Good. Paperback. 1984. 48 pages. some wear to the card covers .
Pelorus Jack - The Story of New Zealand's Famous Dolphin Paperback - 1984
by Tania Atkinson
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- Title Pelorus Jack - The Story of New Zealand's Famous Dolphin
- Author Tania Atkinson
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Edition 2nd
- Language ENG
- Publisher Collins (Fontana Lions), Auckland, NZ
- Date 1984
- ISBN 9780001849891
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Auckland: Collins, 1984. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket Issued. Second impression. Small amount of foxing to endpapers only. This was the name given to a dolphin which from 1888 to 1912 used to meet and escort ships over a certain stretch of water across Admiralty Bay, north of the French Pass (used by ships travelling between Wellington and Nelson). So regular was the dolphin in its habits that on 26 September 1904 it was protected by Order in Council under the Sea Fisheries Act and remained so until its disappearance. It is thought to have been the first individual sea creature protected in this way by any country. Pelorus Jack, whose sex was never determined, was identified from photographs, probably correctly, as a Risso's dolphin (Grampus griseus), a species not common in New Zealand waters. It was his habit to meet the steamers near Cape Francis and travel with them (playing about the bow and in some accounts rubbing against the plates) as far as Collinet Point near…
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Auckland: Collins, 1984. 1st edition. soft cover. VG. Very good condition with shelf wear and edge wear to covers./No Jacket. Illustrated with black and white drawings by Winnie van't Hof. 23 cm.
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