Still from early documentary film, first shown publicly in 1912.
<p>In the foreground is a killer whale (<i>Orcinus orca</i>) named Old Tom, swimming alongside a whaling boat that is being towed by a harpooned whale (out of frame to the right). A whale calf can be seen between Old Tom and the boat. The whalers were based in Eden, New South Wales, Australia.
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Sources for description: <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.killersofeden.com/">[1]</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview?pi=nla.pic-vn3103733&amp;fullrecord=yes">[2]</a>
Charles Eden Wellings (1881-1952)
First displayed publicly in Sydney in 1912.
<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview?pi=nla.pic-vn3103733">[3]</a>. The NLA id bar has been cropped off the uploaded file. This is a still from an early documentary film, produced in 1910 and first shown to the public in Sydney in 1912.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.killersofeden.com/">[4]</a>