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the world's largest animal, the blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus). ... ***** Southern Right Whale, Eubalaena australis *** Family Balaenopteridae: ...

Toothed whale is the general term for any of the various aquatic mammals ... ***** Southern right whale dolphin, Lissodelphis peronii ...

Whale shark is the common name for a very large, slow, filter-feeding ... The whale shark is ubiquitous in tropical and warm oceans and lives ...

The Southern Ocean, also known as the Antarctic Ocean, is a large ... The Southern Ocean lies in the farthest edge of the Southern Hemisphere ...

exists from historical samples of bowhead whale baleen. D. M. Schell, "Declining ... wildlife. This sea supports many endangered whale species including bowhead ...

that the Cape of Good Hope is the southern tip of Africa and the dividing ... points for whale watching. The Southern right whale is the species most ...

alteration, via Dutch walvis, "whale," and ros, "horse ... and in Bristol Bay off the south shore of southern Alaska west of the Alaska ...

as the Peninsular Ranges, and extend into Southern California. ... in the mountains at the northern and southern ends of the peninsula. The ...

haven for the Harp Seal, walrus, beluga whale, narwhal, and bowhead whale. ... and mid-Baffin island down to the southern part in winter, and migrate ...

The Kuril island chain runs from the southern tip of the peninsula ... as deep as the trench that parallels the southern coast of the Aleutian chain ...

a giant squid locked in battle with a sperm whale is a common one, although ... and Madeira, to the South Atlantic around southern Africa, the North Pacific ...

to eighth centuries C.E. beside the dry southern coast of Peru in the river ... [[Image:Orca mitica nasca.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Killer Whale, Nasca ...

century immigrants from Algarve (Southern Portugal) and from the Minho ... catch was exceeded by a single Japanese whale factory ship. Only sperm ...

shaped tail, and the body is very narrow right before the tail. ... * Southern bluefin tuna, Thunnus maccoyii (Castelnau, 1872). ...

out over the landscape, covering much of southern Nova Scotia. Sections of ... in the Bay of Fundy are caused by a giant whale splashing in the water. Oceanographers ...

* Melon-headed whale, Peponocephala electra * Killer whale, Orcinus orca * Pygmy killer whale, Feresa attenuata ...

quest of the sea captain Ahab for the white whale Moby-Dick, and is a figurative ... bound for the Pacific Ocean and the sperm whale fishery. The vessel sailed ...

wind-driven polynya that forms along the southern coast of the island. The ... 1800s. They subsisted by hunting walrus and whale and by fishing. A famine ...

and southwestern Alaska ranging from southern Norton Sound southwards ... called Pacific Yupik or Sugpiaq, are a southern coastal people of the Yupik ...

sub-divided into two smaller groups, the Southern and Northern Gulf Islands. ... a geological standpoint, includes the Southern Gulf Islands and the San ...

whose family had flourished in the southern islands but had been almost ... as well, such as the Northern Bottlenose Whale and Atlantic White-sided ...

genus are found primarily in the Southern hemisphere. The Antarctic ... ursinus) normally ranges from Japan to southern California and north to ...

lamellae of dabbling ducks are similar to a whale's baleen, with these ... the "eclipse" plumage. Southern resident species typically ...

in the reef, including the dwarf minke whale, the Indo-Pacific humpback ... the reef and the water remains so deep right up to the reef, that anchoring ...

Fish range in size from the 14m (45ft) whale shark to the 7mm (just ... Lofoten area in northern Norway to the southern parts of Europe. This trade ...

waters throughout the Pacific and Southern oceans and the southern ... Pacific, diversifying rapidly into the Southern Hemisphere, where most species ...

they began settlement. A group of the southern islands were seized by Japan ... Islands are, in turn, separated from the Southern Kuril Islands (Chirpoy to ...

grasp prey, but the short-clawed otter of southern Asia has only vestigial ... *Southern River Otter (Lontra provocax) *Long-tailed Otter or Neotropical ...

only about 22 grams (0.8 ounces). In southern environments, young muskrats ... introduced. (They were also introduced to southern South America.) While much ...

as food for baleen whales, manta rays, whale sharks, crabeater seals and ... up the largest part of their diet. In the Southern Ocean (or Antarctic Ocean ...

and Australia; and on the south by the Southern Ocean (or, traditionally ... 000 kilometers (6,200 mi) wide at the southern tips of Africa and Australia; ...

*has its population concentrated on the coast and in its southern ... England, which make for excellent skiing. Southern Vermont, New Hampshire, ...

into a northern continent, Laruasia, and a southern continent, Gondwana. Australia is considered to have broken off of the larger landmass about 60 ...

northern tip of Labrador. Following the southern coast of the strait on August ... example, Hudson discovered and made note of whale pods off the coast of Spitzbergen ...

Northumberland Strait. The eastern and southern coasts front the Atlantic ... not on the land, but in the water: Whales. Whale-watching cruises are operated ...

around its northern shores, while the southern islands' waters flow ... it is −11 °F (−24 °C), and in the southern and southeastern parts it ...

the Magellan Strait) is a channel at the southern tip of South America linking ... 14, 2009. In this part of the strait, its southern boundary follows first the ...

(4 ft) long. The largest seal is the male southern elephant seal, a phocid ... All but two species of fur seals are found in the Southern Hemisphere ...

Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Southern oceans. The concept of a ... the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean (which is sometimes ...

two species of fur seals are found in the Southern Hemisphere, while sea lions ... 1.2 m (4 ft) long; the largest, the male southern elephant seal, is over 4 ...

group of large terrestrial browsers right through the Oligocene. However ... *Rhinocerotidae – Rhinoceroses. Africa and southern Asia. 5 species ...

including whaling. The capture of a whale benefits each member of a ... makes it more difficult to harvest bowhead whale, seals, walrus, and other ...

status and wealth. The northern and southern dialects of the Haida language ... the moiety of Raven or Eagle. The Killer Whale is associated with the Raven ...

Indian Ocean in the southeast, and the Southern Ocean in the south. (Alternatively ... others show it as bounded to the south by the Southern Ocean ...

and again at the port of Kagoshima in southern Kyushu, forcing them to ... trade with Asia. In 1852, the influential southern journal De Bow's Review ...

north of the tree line, the de facto southern border of Inuit society ... were still moving into new territory in southern Labrador in the seventeenth ...

*Diamond Head—a mountain that serves as a landmark on the southern tip of the island *Hanauma Bay—an inlet encircled by the walls of a sunken ...

seasonal inshore fisheries producing for southern European markets. ... the Flemish Cap) and "tail" (southern extremity) of the fishing ...

Georgia has emerged as a leader in the southern region, due in large ... to the coastal plain that includes the southern half of the state. The highest ...

* H. a. constrictus – in Angola, the southern Democratic Republic ... west through Ghana to Gambia, and also in Southern Africa (Botswana, Republic ...

The southern portion of the Arctic Refuge is within the taiga (boreal ... east fork of the Chandalar River on the southern boundary of the Refuge. ...

Puerto Baquerizo Moreno, lies at the southern tip of the island. ... can be observed from the cliffs at the southern part of the island, including ...

trade of dry cod from the Lofoten area to the southern parts of Europe, Italy, Spain and Portugal. The trade in cod, which started during the Viking ...

living almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere, and characterized ... All penguin species are native to the Southern Hemisphere, principally ...

Norwegian and the Scottish coastline. The southern coasts consist of sandy ... was formally invaded in 43 C.E. and its southern areas incorporated into ...

believe they arrived later than the more southern tribes (around 4,000 years ... the Aleuts with food. Salmon, seal, walrus, whale, crabs, shellfish, and cod ...

the salmon, beaver, bear, wolf, raven, orca whale or frog. ... in the temperate rainforest biome. On the southern and eastern portions of ...

east of Xi'an, contained candles made from whale fat. ... In 1750, spermaceti, oil produced by the sperm whale, was used to ...

Bahamas and Cuba lie close to its eastern and southern shores. ... wider peninsula, largely desert. At the southern end of the peninsula, the ...

abolitionist movement that emancipated southern blacks from slavery. ... neighbor, Connecticut, as well as the southern Atlantic state of Georgia ...

[[Image:Humpback Whale underwater shot.jpg|400px|right|thumb|Humpback ... Bermuda. The most common is the Humpback Whale, which passes the islands ...

should also be noted, however, that the southern portion of Greenland (not ... butterflies and spiders from beneath the southern Greenland glacier was estimated ...

and the name of a highway junction in southern Tel-Aviv, Israel. ... *While searching for "Maybe Dick the Wailing Whale" Rocky ...

to the north, as well as the eastern and southern portions of Victoria Island ... #039; north, 102°00' west, on the southern shore of Kasba Lake. ...

forests are considered to have extended right to the poles, while rainy ... high. But when Australia split from the southern continent around 45 mya ...

The four remaining ships departed for the Magellan Strait at the southern ... Another location often claimed to be Nova Albion is Whale Cove (Oregon ...

most active earthquake belts rims the southern portion of the state. ... *South central Alaska, the state's southern coastal region, contains ...

Perry Miller (1956). The Raven and the Whale: The War of Words and Wits ... wrote, was because he sought "the right to despise a world which ...

of the Germanic tribe of Geatland, from southern Sweden, travels to Denmark ... from between 450 and 600 in Denmark and southern Sweden (Geats and Swedes ...

from the northern California coast north to the southern Oregon Coast. The tree is closely related to the Giant Sequoia of central California, and more ...

Bay (top) and Table Bay with Robben Island (right) from space, February 1995.]] ... In 1795, the British claimed the southern tip of Africa and began ...

In May 2007, waves reaching up to 11 meters devastated the southern ... plunging to 4000 m at its edges. The southern part of the plateau was ...

to lie in the area around Perth and the southern Strathearn, whereas recent ... The Northumbrians continued to dominate southern Scotland for the remainder ...

Hispaniola and Cuba had moved into the southern Bahamas. Columbus called ... In circumstances similar to those of the southern states of the United States ...

years ago). They probably came from more southern regions, from what is now ... stronghold of Norwegian resistance in southern Norway in May. The armed ...

diving. Sea turtles come to roost on the southern beaches. In August to September ... to obtain French citizenship and gain the right to enter France. Poor farmers ...

northern tip of Labrador. Following the southern coast of the strait on August ... on the bay's islands. Adult male left, female right.]] ...

Albatrosses range widely in the Southern Ocean (South Pole Ocean or ... Of these, the species range from the Southern Royal Albatross which is ...

overlying the South Pole. Situated in the southern hemisphere and largely south ... about a Terra Australis ("Southern Land") date back to ...

is the largest lake within the borders of southern Canada and one of the last ... is somewhat drier than other parts of southern Manitoba and very drought ...

of the Sacramento River, while the southern portion, the San Joaquin ... The Channel Islands are located off the southern coast. ...

Asian. Hainan Island and several other southern Chinese regions such as ... when it dominated other kingdoms in the southern Malay Peninsula, Borneo ...

parallel forming the eastern part of the southern boundary. To the east Washington ... their industries were salmon fishing and whale hunting. In the east, nomadic ...

Quebec has three main climate regions. Southern and western Quebec ... Valley. The Inuit continue to fish and hunt whale and seal in the harsh Arctic ...

The slaves were chained two by two (the right wrist and ankle of one to ... life in the South and that therefore the southern states continued to defend ...

are located within Massachusetts. The southern slope of Mount Frissell ... only 12.3 percent. Most of western and southern Connecticut is strongly ...

in what is now southeastern Oregon and southern Idaho.]] ... Western Oregon University in Monmouth, Southern Oregon University in Ashland ...

to rolling plateau of Patagonia in the southern half down to Tierra del ... orcas, and whales like the southern right whale, a major tourist draw ...

Like humans who are typically right- or left-handed, elephants are ... twenty-fold those of a typical elephant, whale brains are barely twice the ...

* tail fin of fish, whale, and lobster; * eyes of the vertebrates and ... America. But once they got down into the southern continents, they presumably ...

|drives_on = right |cctld = .st ... mountain range. São Tomé, the sizable southern island, was named after ...

including the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Southern and Arctic Oceans. ... wind blows continuously as happens in the Southern Hemisphere in the Roaring ...

[[File:Windmills.jpg|350px|thumb|right|Wind turbines in Southern California ... In the early nineteenth century, whale oil was the dominant form of ...

Marine Resources Reserve. An International Whale Sanctuary was established ... Highway connects the northern and southern portions of the country ...

rays, parrot fish, schools of blue tang and whale shark. ... over the Pacific and move north to affect southern Honduras, but Pacific storms ...

varies regionally, with areas along the southern coast averaging 118 inches ... The center-right government follows economic policies of reducing ...

each of which must be profitable in its own right. The “downstream ... revealed that Shell’s local offices in southern Africa, along with those ...

its own supporting rectangular pier at right angles to the other. ... churches such as Pisa Cathedral and southern France being much closer ...

them in size—most notably the blue whale, which reaches up to 190 ... Current dinosaur "hot spots" include southern South America ...

10 °F (6 °C) colder than the southern areas of the state. Annual snowfall averages between 60 to 100 inches (150–250 cm) depending on ...

Barwon River rose in flood and then fell. In southern Victoria, indigenous people created an elaborate systems of canals, some more than 2 km long. ...

systems use the horizontal axis (left to right as the Latin script or right ... antiquity to the present. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press ...

verse epics in the Romance language of southern France, especially those ... founded upon certain wild legends in the Southern Sperm Whale Fisheries," ...

life - such as species of turtle, shark, whale, dolphin, and others - are ... Néill, and the Clan Cholmáin, of the southern Uí Néill, alternated as ...