There had been fears that the whale discovered on a beach in Victoria was the beloved humpback Migaloo.
People have been warned not to touch or interfere with the dead whale, and Victoria's environment department has said significant penalties will apply to anyone attempting to take unauthorised samples - such as teeth - as a souvenir.
Local resident Peter Coles, who was out fishing when he kayaked across to see the dead mammal, told Sky News:"It was beautiful even though it was dead. It was pretty spectacular. It was pure white and marble looking. I thought it looked like a sculpture, it almost didn't look real. "I paced it out and it was 10m long. I didn't touch it and it was a bit smelly. There weren't any signs of decomposition but it did look very, very dead."
1.2 miles from Green Island near the Great Barrier Reef in North Queensland, the first time such a creature had ever been captured on film.Erich Hoyt, a research fellow at Whale and Dolphin Conservation in the UK, has said"fewer than 1 in 10,000 humpback individuals" are likely to be affected.
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