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Stay-away ban issued to protect rare visiting whales

Authorities were concerned when locals got a bit too close to two southern right whales off Sydney. (Bob McPherson Photography/AAP PHOTOS)

Boaties, swimmers and divers are being asked to keep their distance from a rare visitor to Australia's east coast - the endangered southern right whale.

The famously docile but inquisitive and playful dorsal-less marine mammals infrequently swim into harbours and alongside beaches.

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