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Fur Seals Return to Gough Island

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

W.R.P. Bourne
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After a somewhat perilous landing on Gough Island, south of Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic, the author was able to confirm the remarkable comeback of the fur seals there, once heavily exploited but now numbering over a hundred thousand.

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Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , May 1981 , pp. 46 - 47
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Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1981