The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, September 3rd, 2002
'Willy' is free in the fjords
Splashing around Norway, movie-star whale still likes human touch
Associated Press
Tuesday, September 3, 2002
Oslo, Norway -- Keiko, the killer whale who became famous as the star of "Free Willy" movies, has turned up in a Norwegian fjord, six weeks after he was returned to the wild from his pen in Iceland.
"It's definitely him. We have tracked him from Iceland," Fernando Ugarte, part of the team monitoring the orca's progress, said by telephone Monday from a ship in the fjord.
Keiko is arguably the world's best-known whale, given his starring role in the th...
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