The Famous Tay Whale
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"The Famous Tay Whale" is a poem by William Topaz McGonagall about a humpback whale hunted and killed in 1883 in the Firth of Tay near Dundee, Scotland, then the UK's main whaling port. The Tay whale came to public prominence when it was subject to a public dissection by Sir John Struthers and taken on a tour of the UK. It's skeleton now resides in the Dundee Maritime Museum.[1][2][3]
The dissection of the Tay whale by John Struthers, who is in a top hat to the left of the photograph
[edit] References
- ^ "Professor Struthers and the Tay Whale". http://www.abdn.ac.uk/talpa/struthers/tay_whale.hti. Retrieved on 2008-06-19.
- ^ Williams MJ (June 1996). "Professor Struthers and the Tay whale". Scott Med J 41 (3): 92–4. PMID 8807706.
- ^ "McGonagall Online: The Famous Tay Whale". http://www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk/poems/pgwhale.htm. Retrieved on 2008-06-19.
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