Whales are stranded at Farewell Spit near Nelson, New Zealand, on Friday. The 416 stranded whales, most of them already dead, were discovered early Friday on Farewell Spit at the tip of the South Island. The largest was in 1918, when about 1,000 pilot whales came ashore on the Chatham Islands. In 1985, about 450 whales stranded in Auckland. Pilot whales grow to about 7.5 metres and are common around New Zealand's waters.

Source: Bangkok Post February 11, 2017 05:15 UTC