Humpback Whale
Megaptera novaeangliae
iSimangaliso Wetland Park and Garden Route National Park are the two atlas parks where the Humpback Whale is recorded, with records concentrating in Antarctica, Iceland, Canada, Australia, and Réunion. The atlas holds about 71,000 open records of this mammal across 21 countries. This map tracks where these records concentrate rather than the full range of Megaptera novaeangliae.
Seasons differ by region for the Humpback Whale, and each place page shows the particular months recorded there.
- Records
- 70,597
- Countries
- 21
- Atlas places
- 2
These are open occurrence records, so they show where people looked for and recorded the Humpback Whale as much as where it lives. The atlas keeps a species' 200 best-recorded grid cells, so the map shows where records concentrate rather than its whole range. Cells are up to 25 km across, and every location is generalised to its cell.
Generalised encounter areas, not exact locations. Each shape is a grid cell coloured by how likely the species is there.
- Very likelyAntarctica25 km zone · high confidence · 28173 records · updated 40 days ago
- Very likelyIceland25 km zone · high confidence · 9682 records · updated 40 days ago
- Very likelyCanada25 km zone · high confidence · 7573 records · updated 40 days ago
- Very likelyAustralia25 km zone · high confidence · 7014 records · updated 40 days ago
- Very likelyRéunion25 km zone · high confidence · 6232 records · updated 40 days ago
- Very likelyUnited States25 km zone · high confidence · 4650 records · updated 40 days ago
- Very likelySouth Africa25 km zone · high confidence · 2234 records · updated 40 days ago
- Very likelyNew Caledonia25 km zone · high confidence · 1443 records · updated 40 days ago
- Very likelyNew Zealand25 km zone · high confidence · 669 records · updated 40 days ago
- Very likelyFrench Polynesia25 km zone · high confidence · 663 records · updated 40 days ago
Conservation status not assessed here yet, so every location is generalised to its grid cell.
