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The following article is republished from The Conversation, dated 14 April 2021 (https://theconversation.com/forensics-and-ship-logs-solve-a-200-year-mystery-about-where-the-first-kiwi-specimen-was-collected-158410).
As required in this journal’s republishing guidelines, the article has not been edited, but we have attributed the authors and their institute.