Status Updates From The Compleat Discworld Atlas

It is said that the stone quarried in Ur is more intelligent than the local inhabitants; this may not be literally true but the quarrymen of Ur are noted for their stolid diligence in carving out great blocks from the living rock.

Whale Bay […] is home to the Great Blues Whale, so named for its sorrowful disposition and doleful songs. These great beasts are hunted, but not for their meat or blubber, though that is a useful by-product: they are slaughtered mostly to silence them. Their gloomy choruses echoing through freezing fog and frozen landscape often prove too much for the exhausted and struggling inhabitants of this inhospitable land.