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Nature taking toll on historic site

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Erosion at the northern end of Wainui Beach is the worst it has ever been and is starting to impact on the historic Whales Grave area.

After the corpses of 59 sperm whales were buried there in 1970, the site was left to decline until 2013 when the Gisborne District Council (GDC) decided to upgrade it as a historic feature of Lysnar Reserve — to recognise the stranding as a defining moment in th...


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