They're looking at me and I just can't help them.' The west coast of Tasmania has been the site of previous mass beachings: 470 pilot whales were stranded at Macquarie Harbour near Strahan in 2020 ...

Strandings in Tasmania are usually pilot whales. Mr Clark declined to speculate on why the latest pod might have been stranded. Carcasses of dead whales would be examined for clues, he said.

It remains unclear how many survived. Around 470 pilot whales stranded at Macquarie Harbour near Strahan in Tasmania’s west coast in 2020, followed by another 200 in the same area in 2022.

"There are little babies. Up one end, there's a lot of big ones. It's sad." In 2022, 230 pilot whales stranded further south on the west coast at Macquarie Harbour. The largest mass-stranding in ...

That was a pod of more than 160 whales that landed on a beach near Stanley on the northwest coast. Strandings in Tasmania are usually pilot whales. Clark declined to speculate on why the latest ...