Humphrey Wooden Carving - Antioch, CA
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N 38° 01.196 W 121° 49.215
10S E 603552 N 4208683
A wood carving of Humphrey the whale in front of the Humphrey's Restaurant at the Antioch marina.
Waymark Code: WM7CQE
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 10/05/2009
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"Humphrey the Whale is arguably the most widely publicized humpback whale in history, having errantly entered San Francisco Bay twice, departing from his Mexico to Alaska migration. This behavior is not normal for any Humpback whale, and Humphrey became well known on national television and press coverage for his misadventures in the years 1985 and 1990. Humphrey is a member of the species Megaptera novaeangliae, and each episode of his bay excursions resulted in a dramatic estuarine rescue of this giant mammal by the Marine Mammal Center, based in Marin County, California, assisted by the United States Coast Guard and hundreds of other volunteers. Humphrey (sometimes known in the media as Humphrey the humpback whale) is 40 feet (12 m) long and weighs 80,000 pounds (36 tons). Humphrey’s last sighting was in the vicinity of the Farallon Islands in the year 1991." (
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