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The whale's journey is the longest great-circle distance between two sightings ever recorded for the species , scientists said. Great-circle distance refers to the shortest distance between two points on Earth as measured on the planet's spherical surface.
The whale likely swam eastward from Colombia, riding on prevailing currents in the Southern Ocean and potentially visiting humpback whale populations in the Atlantic Ocean, said study co-author Ted Cheeseman, a doctoral student at Southern Cross University in Australia and director of Happywhale, an image database where the researchers collected evidence for the study.
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