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Some of the 197 pilot whales that died after beaching themselves along several hundred yards of shoreline on Tasmania's east coast at the weekend. It is not known what led the whales to beach themselves

Sunday 27 September 1992 23:02 BST
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Some of the 197 pilot whales that died after beaching themselves along several hundred yards of shoreline on Tasmania's east coast at the weekend. It is not known what led the whales to beach themselves

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