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Rurutu, French Polynesia
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Rurutu, French Polynesia

As you plunge below the surface, the sounds of whales fill your ears. The shadow of a 40-ton adult humpback comes into view beneath you. Then you notice its two-ton calf. Every year between August and November, humpbacks migrating north from Antarctica rest in the waters of the Australes Archipelago. If you're lucky, you can look literally eye-to-eye with a barnacle-encrusted creature more than 40 feet long.

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