Fri Jun 15 2012 22:29 | ITN
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Argentina has enjoyed a stunning natural phenomenon - the return of the migrating southern
right whales. The first pods of southern right whales returned to Patagonia on Friday, after
spending the summer in Antarctic waters.
They arrived in a bay at Valdes peninsula, a nature reserve which enjoys the world's largest
concentration of the whales. Tourists flock to the cold steppe to take boats out into the bay and
get up close to the creatures, which stay from June to December. Friday's arrivals were only the
start of the mass migration, with arrivals peaking in late summer.
Right Whales have large heads and are easily distinguished by thick growths of skin on their
bodies. Much of the Valdes peninsula - in Argentina's Chubut province - is a nature reserve and
was declared part of Argentina's national heritage in 1999.
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Argentina has enjoyed a stunning natural phenomenon - the return of the migrating southern
right whales. The first pods of southern right whales returned to Patagonia on Friday, after
spending the summer in Antarctic waters.
They arrived in a bay at Valdes peninsula, a nature reserve which enjoys the world's largest
concentration of the whales. Tourists flock to the cold steppe to take boats out into the bay and
get up close to the creatures, which stay from June to December. Friday's arrivals were only the
start of the mass migration, with arrivals peaking in late summer.
Right Whales have large heads and are easily distinguished by thick growths of skin on their
bodies. Much of the Valdes peninsula - in Argentina's Chubut province - is a nature reserve and
was declared part of Argentina's national heritage in 1999.
