HIS YEAR it was feared eastern Australia’s legendary white whale, Migaloo, had died. But, historian Henry Reynolds wrote, “She looked at me not as an individual, or as a male, or as a well-meaning academic, but as a white man, a ‘migaloo’.” The rare albino humpback – first seen in 1991 off Byron Bay, then yearly as it migrated along the Aussie coastline – was given the name Migaloo, a creative use of an Indigenous word.
Oz Words
Nov 03, 2022
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