News | Iceland Monitor | Wed 1 Jul 2015 | 16.00 GMT | Modified at 22.29

VIDEO: Watch fin whale being landed in Iceland

Last night, whaling vessel Hvalur 9 landed the first fin whale of this year's whaling season and it was brought in to the whaling station at Hvalfjörður. Morgunblaðið photographer Golli filmed the event using a drone. 

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