Life-size Gray Whale Sculpture
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This life-size sculpture of a gray whale mother and her calf features the largest bronze whale in the world. It is found at Birch Aquarium at Scripps in La Jolla, Calif.
Waymark Code: WM2M5X
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 11/19/2007
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This life-size sculpture of a gray whale family features the largest bronze whale in the world. The mother is a full 40 feet tall, as high as the aquarium building itself. Her 16-foot calf is alongside, the two of them rising from a fountain specially designed to replicate a dramatic splash. In an adjacent pool are the 10-foot wide tail flukes of a third whale, depicted as it dives. Better than any book or video, the life-size whales offer visitors an immediate sense of scale for these ocean giants.
Name or use 'Unknown' if not known: The Legacy
Figure Type: Animal
Artist Name or use 'Unknown' if not known: Randy Puckett
Date created or placed or use 'Unknown' if not known: 1996
Materials used: Bronze
Location: Outside Birch Aquarium at Scripps
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