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Makubetsu
is a List of towns in Japan, town located in Tokachi Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.
As of September 2016, the town has an estimated population of 27,310 and a population density, density of 80 persons per km2. The total area is 340.46 km ...
,
Hokkaidō
is Japan's second largest island and comprises the largest and northernmost prefecture, making up its own region. The Tsugaru Strait separates Hokkaidō from Honshu; the two islands are connected by the undersea railway Seikan Tunnel.
The la ...
, Japan in 1988. It commemorates the chance discovery of a
fossilized
Naumann's elephant in
Chūrui,
now Makubetsu, on 26 July 1969, during construction work on a farm road: the youth who unearthed the initial piece with his pickaxe crying out . During the course of three subsequent excavations, some forty-seven bones were recovered, representing 70–80% of the total skeleton. Twenty-two museums in Japan and the rest of the world now house the reconstructed elephant's remains from the Chrui finds.
See also
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Lake Nojiri Naumann Elephant Museum
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Blind men examining an elephant
References
External links
Chūrui Naumann Elephant Museum
Museums in Hokkaido
Natural history museums in Japan
Makubetsu, Hokkaido
1988 establishments in Japan
Museums established in 1988
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