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This remarkable film shows a paddle boarder’s close encounter with two curious whales in Argentina.
The drone footage was captured by photographer Maxi Jonas who spotted the Southern Right Whales playfully swimming beneath the board of Analia Giorgetti.
She was on the water during her birthday and described the chance meeting as a “magical moment.”
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Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country located mostly in the southern half of South America. Sharing the bulk of the Southern Cone with Chile to the west, the country is also bordered by Bolivia and Paraguay to the north, Brazil to the northeast, Uruguay and the South Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Drake Passage to the south.
With a mainland area of 2,780,400 km2 (1,073,500 sq mi), Argentina is the eighth-largest country in the world, the fourth largest in the Americas, the second largest in South America after Brazil, and the largest Spanish-speaking nation by area.
Argentina claims sovereignty over part of Antarctica, the Falkland Islands, and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
