Flesh-footed Shearwater (Puffinus carneipes) above Southern Ocean, Bremer Canyon, Albany, Western Australia

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Flesh-footed Shearwaters are large muttonbirds (sometimes classified in the genus Ardenna) found in the Southern and Pacific Oceans with a colony near Lord Howe Is. Bremer Canyon is a deep, 5000m cleft in the Southern Ocean lying 65km offshore of Bremer Bay on the Western Aistralian south The canyon attracts a variety of marine life, in particular Orca hunting whales. The Southern Ocean extends south from the Great Australian Bight to Antarctica.

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Size: 4900px × 3675px
Location: Bremer Canyon, Southern Ocean, Western Australia, Australia
Photo credit: © steve waters / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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