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WORLD, Page 59World NotesCANADAThe Quest For Ogopogo
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.
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."