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🦑 The Giant Squid

GLOVER’S HARBOUR, NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR

Quick facts: Length: life-size, 55 feet · The original: washed ashore here in 1878, still the largest ever recorded · Statue weight: four tons

This statue is life-size, because the real thing needed no exaggeration: a 55-foot giant squid washed ashore at Glover’s Harbour in 1878, and it is still the largest ever recorded. The statue honouring it weighs four tons.

The original was famously cut up for dog food, because Newfoundland wastes nothing.

Moose Mail verdict: Newfoundland wastes nothing, and neither do we.

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