Yttygran Island is an island in the Bering Sea 24 kilometres (15 miles) northwest of Cape Chaplino, close to the coast of Chukotka. Situated on the northern shore of Yttygran island (from the Chukchi Etgyran, meaning "midway dwellings"), Whale Bone Alley consists of a large number of carefully arranged whale skulls, whale bones and stones, along with a consi...

The Whale Museum (Museo de La Ballena) in La Paz is a museum where you will see big skeletons of whales on display in their garden, different rooms where they see whale history in the peninsula. 

The Whale Shark is the ocean’s gentle giant. Known as the largest fish in the sea these creatures can grow as long as 13 meters. Giants they are but their diet consists of some of the smallest living things on earth, plankton, which are relatively microscopic in size compared to the massive Whale Sharks. These migratory sharks visit a number of places around the...

The Whale Shark is the ocean’s gentle giant. Known as the largest fish in the sea these creatures can grow as long as 40 feet (11 meters). The whale sharks in LA Bay are often 7-10 meters in length and are usually are found in schools of 3-5 fish. Whale Sharks can live as much as 70 years. There are only four places on the planet whale sharks make predictable a...

The Whale Shark is the ocean’s gentle giant. Known as the largest fish in the sea these creatures can grow as long as 40 feet (11 meters). The whale sharks in the Maldives are often 7-10 meters in length and are usually are found in schools of 3-5 fish. Whale Sharks can live as much as 70 years. There are now year round population of whale sharks in the Maldives...

From mid-May through September hundreds of whale sharks gather in the waters near Isla Mujeres, with peak season in July and August. The annual Whale Shark Festival occurs mid-July.

The Whale Shark is the ocean’s gentle giant. Known as the largest fish in the sea these creatures can grow as long as 40 feet (11 meters). The whale sharks in La Paz are often 7-10 meters in length and are usually are found in schools of 3-5 fish. Whale Sharks can live as much as 70 years. There are only four places on the planet whale sharks make predictable ap...

The Whale Shark is the ocean’s gentle giant. Known as the largest fish in the sea these creatures can grow as long as 40 feet (11 meters). Ningaloo Reef in Western Australia is one four easily accessible places in the world where whale sharks appear in large numbers at predictable times of the year. For Ningaloo Reef this is mid-March to mid-May. Giants they a...

Humpbacks migrate over 6,000 miles from Siberia and Alaska to the warmer waters of Baja California and the Sea of Córtez whales each year from January through April. Blue whales arrive in the Sea of Cortez, every year in mid January and stay until mid March. You'll also spot grays, fin, sei, pilot, orca, minke and Sperm whales along with many species of porpois...

The World Wildlife Fund named Cape Cod Massachusetts one of the top ten whale-watching spots in the world. Some of the best excursions leave from Provincetown, at the tip of Cape Cod. The town has several whale watching fleets who patrol the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary. Most fleets guarantee a whale sighting (mostly humpback whale, fin whale, minke whal...

Geographe Bay is in the south-west of Western Australia around 220 km southwest of Perth. The bay attracts whale watchers, who see it as an alternative to Flinders Bay. The whale watching season is from September to December. The bay was named in May 1801 by French explorer Nicolas Baudin; Baudin named the bay after his ship, Géographe. The bay is a wide curve ...

The Kaikoura Peninsula is located in the northeast of New Zealand's South Island. It protrudes five kilometres into the Pacific Ocean. The town of Kaikoura is located on the north shore of the peninsula. The peninsula has been settled by Maori for approximately 1000 years, and by Europeans since the 1800’s when whaling operations began off the Kaikoura Coast. Si...

The world's largest population of Humpbacks and 21 other species of whales and dolphins can be seen off Newfoundland and Labrador. In addition to Humpbacks, Beluga, Narwhal, Sperm Whale, Orca, Pygmy Sperm Whale, Blue Whale, Fin Whale, Sei Whale, Minke Whale, Bowhead Whale, Right Whale, Northern Bottle-Nosed Whale, Sowerby's Beaked Whale, Blainville's Beaked Whale and ...

The Valdes Peninsula is a peninsula on the Atlantic coast in the north east of Chubut Province, Argentina. About 3,625 km2 (896,000 acres; 1,400 sq mi) in size, it is an important nature reserve which was listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1999. Southern right whales can be found in Golfo Nuevo and Golfo San José, protected bodies of water located bet...

Plettenberg Bay, nicknamed Plet or Plett, is in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. It lies on South Africa's Garden Route 210 km from Port Elizabeth and about 600 km from Cape Town. Southern Right whales are a common sight in the bay during their breeding season from July to December. Bryde's whales frequent the bay throughout the year being the most sighted d...