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- <text id=89TT2427>
- <title>
- Sep. 18, 1989: World Notes:Canada
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Sep. 18, 1989 Torching The Amazon
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 59
- World Notes
- CANADA
- The Quest For Ogopogo
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Loch Ness may have Nessie, but British Columbia has
- Ogopogo. Inexplicably named after a British music-hall song of
- the 1920s, the humpy monster is said to inhabit 79-mile-long
- Okanagan Lake in southern British Columbia. Ogopogo has been
- reported seen scores of times over the past 200 years, but
- interest surged last month after Ken Chaplin, a local car
- salesman, claimed to have caught the creature on videotape.
- Chaplin's four videos depict not just one but two spinach-green
- serpentine creatures with whiplike tails.
- </p>
- <p> The National Geographic Society is analyzing Chaplin's
- film, and an inconclusive underwater robot expedition by local
- Ogopogo aficionados will be restaged. Said Jim Stuart, mayor of
- the lakeshore community of Kelowna: "Obviously, something's
- there."
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- </body></article>
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