A snapshot of major Australian whale strandings:
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* August 1996 - Roughly 300 long-finned pilot whales strand in Dunsborough, WA with 200 successfully moved to deeper water.
* June 2005 - About 100 false killer whales strand on Busselton Beach 200km south of Perth. At least one dies on the beach.
* March 2009 - Seven bottlenose dolphins and 200 pilot whales strand on Tasmania's King Island. 48 whales and five dolphins are saved.
* March 2009 - Almost 90 whales and dolphins beach at Hamelin Bay south of Perth. Four survive.
* November 2009 - A six-metre baby humpback dies in Kalbarri, WA at Chinaman's Beach and another is found nearby in bad condition.
* November 2011 - A pod of 24 sperm whales strand near the entrance to Tasmania's Macquarie Harbour. Rescuers refloat two.
* July 2013 - Seven killer whales strand on the Great Sandy Strait off Queensland's K'gari. Five successfully refloated.
* December 2014 - Eight sperm whales strand on Parara Beach, SA. Authorities coax one into deeper water but the rest die.
* March 2015 - Twelve of 22 long-finned pilot whales die after stranding at Bunbury Harbour south of Perth.
* March 2018 - About 150 short-finned pilot whales strand at Hamelin Bay, south of Perth. Volunteers save seven.
* November 2018 - A humpback whale and about 27 pilot whales die after beaching at Croajingolong National Park in Victoria.
* September 2020 - Australia's worst stranding event: about 470 long-finned pilot whales beach in Macquarie Harbour. Rescuers save 111.
* October 2020 - Four pilot whales strand in Macquarie Harbour. One later dies.
* September 2022 - Fourteen sperm whales die after becoming beached on King Island.
* September 2022 - Some 230 pilot whales strand near Strahan on Tasmania's west coast. After almost a week of work, 44 survive.
* July 2023 - A pod of 97 pilot whales strand at Cheynes Beach, east of Albany. At least 52 die.
Australian Associated Press
