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The whiteness of a whale
The White Whale
The white whale swimming in the ocean depths off the coast of Omishima, circa 1985
This is thought to be the only existing image of the white whale, a mysterious creature that had once held the Japanese village of Omishima in thrall. One of the oldest villagers alive, a man called Mr Kazuhiro Nagashima, said that his people had once placed an effigy of the whale in the sea off the coast of Omishima, and it probably still remains there today.
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