Common Name
Killer Whale
Species
Orcinus orca
Specimen Number
NMML-1850
Sex
Female
Cause Of Death
Illness
Mass
0
Age
Modern
Repository
Port Townsend Marine Science Center
City
Dungeness Spit
Collection
PTMSC
Collector
Unknown Unknown
Owner
Port Townsend Marine Science Center
Comment
On Wednesday, Jan 2, 2002, residents of the cliff above Dungeness Spit reported an orca whale, apparently dead, stranded on a low lying sandbar in a marshy area just south of Dungeness Spit on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State.
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