Travelling down the shoreline we come upon a colony of Cape fur seals.

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Scientists made the discovery while observing hundreds of great white attacks on fur seals off South Africa.

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Once hunted to near extinction, some 3m fur seals now inhabit the island.

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During the winter of 2004, the researchers observed 340 attacks by great whites on fur seals within 2km of the island.

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The island is home to some 64, 000 Cape fur seals, which must swim across water that reaches depths of 20m just 50m from the shore.

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In addition to its beginning-of-the-world astonishing beauty, expect two active volcanoes, tens of thousands of Southern Elephant Seals (biggies with really big noses), Antarctic and Sub Antarctic Fur Seals, predatory Leopard Seals, the rarer, slender and pale Crabeater, the plentiful Weddell Seal, and the rare, small, sort-of-sexy Ross Seals famous for their trilling and siren-like sounds.

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Individual patterns on their fur meant the researchers could identify the seals over two years.

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