100 Mind-Blowing Drowned Facts

Disappointment Island is an uninhabited island in New Zealand. Over 65,000 pairs of white-capped albatross live there. In 1868, a steel tanker crashed on the island, killing 68 people, and leaving the 15 survivors waiting 18 months to be rescued. In 1907, another ship ended up crashing there, and 12 men drowned.

THE NAME ‘NARWHAL’ COMES FROM OLD NORSE. It means “corpse whale” as their skin colour resembles that of a drowned sailor. The scientific name means “one tooth, one horn”.

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