finback

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Climb 41 steps to the lamp room, which has used a LED lantern since 2014 — and you may spot humpback, right and minke as well as finback whales circling in the deep waters below.

From New York Times • Sep. 27, 2019

And the bodies of 28 humpback and 17 finback whales washed up on beaches in Alaska and British Columbia in Canada.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 31, 2019

The pair have chased a finback whale from Campobello to Brier Island in the middle of the night.

From The Guardian • Jun. 20, 2018

If Jonah had been swallowed by a big fish, perhaps the big fish was a whale, and that whale could have been something like a 90-foot finback.

From Salon • Jun. 12, 2012

I happened to be almost in at the death of the biggest finback ever taken.

From Draft of a Plan for Beginning Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador by Wood, William Charles Henry