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Duncan Murray

Humpback whale clocks new record after mega migration

Citizen scientists photographed the record-breaking whale on either sides of the Pacific Ocean. (PR IMAGE PHOTO)

An impressive 15,100 kilometres of ocean separated sightings of one very adventurous, or very lost, humpback whale more than two decades apart, with scientists calling it new record migration for the species.

Recognisable by their unique fluke - or tail - pattern, that whale and one other were recorded in rare sightings at breeding grounds both in eastern Australia and off the coast of Brazil.

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