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The very first discoverer of the narwhal may well have been the ancestors of the Inuit. The hunt of the narwhal and the use of its body parts have been historic, longstanding, traditional activities around which Inuit culture evolved in northern Canada and western Greenland. But the first known, recorded witness by a specific individual was by Olaus Magnus [October 1490-August 1, 1557], in 1555.

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