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East London Museum is a museum in East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa, notable for holding the type specimen of the coelacanth, a fish previously believed to be long extinct. It was the workplace of Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer , the fish's discoverer.
East London Museum Marjorie Eileen Doris Courtenay-Latimer (24 February 1907 – 17 May 2004) was a South African museum official, who in 1938, brought the existence of the coelacanth , a fish thought to have been extinct for 65 million years, to the attention of the world.
Modern day attractions include the Gately House, City Hall, Cape Railways, Nahoon Museum, East London Museum housing the coelacanth, a prehistoric fish, thought to be extinct, discovered live at the Chalumna River mouth near East London by fishermen in 1938, [10] and numerous memorial statues.
Digging below the Parliament building, archaeologists spotted something in the dirt.
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Smith named the fish Latimeria chalumnae in honor of Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer and the waters in which it was found. The two discoverers received immediate recognition, and the fish became known as a "living fossil". The 1938 coelacanth is still on display in the East London Museum.
James Bartley (1870–1909) is the central figure in a late nineteenth-century story according to which he was swallowed whole by a sperm whale.He was found still living days later in the stomach of the whale, which was dead from harpooning.
A pair of mannequins in a boat are used to document the annual ice-out on the Wolf River in New London. This year's was earliest in 173 years.