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The Benguela Current off the Namibian and South African coasts is a paradise for ocean life, large and small.<\/em><\/p>\n Its cold, nutrient-rich waters are so productive that whales of immense sizes find an abundance of food on their migration through our ocean.<\/p>\n In the 16th century, Portuguese seafarers appropriately named the bay on Namibia’s central coast ‘Bay of Whales’.<\/p>\n \n Commercial whaling began in 1726 and expanded so rapidly that both…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The Benguela Current off the Namibian and South African coasts is a paradise for ocean life, large and small. Its cold, nutrient-rich waters are so productive that whales of immense sizes find an abundance of food on their migration through our ocean. In the 16th century, Portuguese seafarers appropriately named the bay on Namibia’s central […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":216628,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,6560,12375,24069,4706,724,257,7897,6656,254],"class_list":["post-216627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-coast","tag-giants","tag-healing","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-protection","tag-return","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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