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This gallery - Signy: Naming | Base summer | Unloading cargo | Relief | Relief 2 | Last call launch | Last call flares | Serolis ice | Thin ice - outward | Thin ice - jetty | Base winter | Base winter 2 | Base dusk | Manhaul 1 | Manhaul 2 | Manhaul 3 | Holiday camp | Base in winter | Foca hut | hut1 | hut2 | Clearing the jetty | Ice blocking | preparing to dive | sorting the net | Tioga | Winterers 1986 | Antarcturus signiensis | Wish you were here | Me and my mate | Whale skull |
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A relic of a bygone age, this whale skull is a sad
reminder of Signy's history. Look at the size of the thing! The
skull is more or less upside down, the part sticking upwards has been
broken off, that would be the part that formed the top part of the head,
the rostrum, from which the baleen plates hung, it would have originally
been 2-3 times as long as it is in this picture. The beaches on the east coast of Signy, particularly near to the base are littered with pieces of whalebone, many of them small and unrecogniseable other than as whalebone. This skull has been washed ashore and so hasn't been eroded by the sea, other recogniseable pieces, particularly of vertebrae were either also washed ashore beyond the reach of the sea or could be found while diving, under the sea but pretty much unmoved for decades. |
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