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Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha

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St Helena National Trust

Bone Sharks of the Loneliest Island

Ocean Life

In the middle of the South Atlantic, a tiny island trust has photo-identified more than 360 whale sharks, and the mature males and females turn up in near-equal numbers, which no other known aggregation does.

360sharksIndividual whale sharks photo-identified in St Helena's waters
444.9kkm2Area of the St Helena marine protected area
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