Whales

Information on Arctic Whales

A baleen plate at the side of the mouth of a Grey whale. Beringia National Park, Providensky Region, Chukotka, Russian Far East

Blue Whale blows. Spitsbergen. Svalbard. Arctic Norway

Blue Whale on the surface. Spitsbergen. Svalbard. Arctic Norway

Two Blue Whales on the surface, one blowing. Spitsbergen. Svalbard. Arctic Norway

Belugas swim past the ice cliff. Liefdefjord; Monacobreen; Svalbard.

Male Narwhal with a long tooth in Arctic waters, Aerial picture.

Beluga Whale or White Whale swimming just below the surface of the Arctic waters

Four Beluga or White whales swim along the floe edge in the Arctic

Remains of a dead Bowhead Whale on the shore at Antarctic Havn. East Greenland.

Minke whale brathing just offshore. Svalbard

Humpback Whales amongst the ice in Johan Petersen Fjord, Angmassalik,

Polar bear burying Beluga muktuk (skin) amongst ice floes. Spitsbergen.

Adult beluga whales, Delphinapterus leucas, scratching their skin on the gravel bottom of a freshwater delta to assist in the annual molt, Somerset Island, Nunavut

Fin Whale. Wood Fjord, N Spitsbergen, June 2006. Print size to A4.(8 x 11.5 inches)

Belugas swimming in peaty water at the mouth of Seal River in Hudson Bay. Canada.

19th century print of a Greenland Whale being approached by a catcher boat

A Dead Narwhal (male) with a long tusk. It has been harpooned and killed by Inuit hunters using kayaks. Northwest Greenland. (1985)

Narwhal meat sliced and hanging up to dry on a meat rack in Qeqertat. Thule, NW Greenland. 1980

Harpooned Narwhal. Greenlandic Inuit are only allowed to hunt Narwhal with kayaks & harpoons. Greenland. 1980

Bowhead Whale Skull buried in the earth at the historic site of Masik. Chukotka. Siberia. Russia. 1997

Jawbones of a Bowhead Whale form the Archway. Umiaks beside it. Barrow. N.Alaska. 1997

Belugas swimming in peaty water at the mouth of Seal River in Hudson Bay, Canada