From 'Yorkshire's Whaling Days' by Jack Dykes (1980):
"Before the Humber became heavily polluted, the smaller whales...penetrated high upstream. In 1905, a beluga was captured in the Ouse near Naburn Lock, a few miles from York."
I have cycled over the Ouse at Naburn many times. The notion of seeing a beluga there is almost too wonderful to imagine.
Postscripts (2014)
1. The Weekly News-Review from August 1905 provides a rather more detailed account of the beluga's appearance and demise.
2. The Guardian declares that in the 1880s, a narwhal also made its way up the Ouse to York!
"Before the Humber became heavily polluted, the smaller whales...penetrated high upstream. In 1905, a beluga was captured in the Ouse near Naburn Lock, a few miles from York."
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| The beluga, or white whale (Delphinapterus leucas) |
I have cycled over the Ouse at Naburn many times. The notion of seeing a beluga there is almost too wonderful to imagine.
Postscripts (2014)
1. The Weekly News-Review from August 1905 provides a rather more detailed account of the beluga's appearance and demise.
2. The Guardian declares that in the 1880s, a narwhal also made its way up the Ouse to York!
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