Captured near Iceland in 1979, Keiko ended up in a marine park in Mexico.
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Keiko rose to fame starring in the children's movies Free Willy, in which he played an orca kept in captivity.
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Keiko, who was about 26, was buried in a pasture near to the bay where he had attracted many tourists to visit.
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"We took him from near death in Mexico to swimming with wild whales in Norway, " said David Phillips, executive director of the Free Willy-Keiko Foundation.
BBC: NEWS | Entertainment | Keiko the 'Free Willy' whale dies
In real life, Keiko was a captive killer whale sparking animal rights campaigners to raise funds to release him from the Mexican aquarium where he was kept.
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Inspired by the films, an international campaign began in 1993 to free Keiko and return him to the wild - the first orca whale to be freed in this way.
BBC: NEWS | Entertainment | Keiko the 'Free Willy' whale dies
Today, he is presiding over a Samadhi ceremony by Keiko Aikwa, a Japanese woman better known as Yogmata, and thousands of people are walking into his compound to watch it.
Currently, the candidates are Ollanta Humala, former President Alejandro Toledo, current Lima mayor Luis Cataneda and Keiko Fujimori, daughter of President Alberto Fujimori who governed Peru from 1990 to 2001.
Keiko, whose name means "Lucky One" in Japanese, starred in three Free Willy films, in which a young boy befriends a killer whale and encourages him to jump over an aquarium wall to ocean freedom.
BBC: NEWS | Entertainment | Keiko the 'Free Willy' whale dies
After being trained to catch fish, Keiko was released off Iceland in July 2002, and swam to Norway, where he became so popular that he was moved to a more remote fjord for his own comfort.
BBC: NEWS | Entertainment | Keiko the 'Free Willy' whale dies
The burial ground was so large that a machine had to be used to dig a hole, before Keiko was slid across the snow to the grave under the cover of night, with just seven people present.
BBC: NEWS | Entertainment | Free Willy whale buried in secret
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