Thursday, July 03, 2008

Extinction of the Great Auk

Today according to Australian Eastern Standard Time when this item was posted
1844 The last pair of Great Auks was killed on an island off Iceland.

The Great Auk was once to be found in great numbers on islands off eastern Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Ireland and Britain, but it was eventually hunted to extinction ...

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