Megaptera novaeangliae
Category: Whales & Dolphins
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Cetartiodactyla
- Family
- Balaenopteridae
- Genus
- Megaptera
Where to Find
Found in 124 diving areas across 62 countries and 10 regions.
- Coral Sea, Australia - 88 records
- Lord Howe Island, Australia - 2018 records
- Ningaloo Reef, Australia - 628 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 21 records
- South Australia, Australia - 117 records
- Sydney & New South Wales, Australia - 3758 records
- Tasmania, Australia - 303 records
- Victoria, Australia - 343 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 2 records
- Isle of Pines, New Caledonia - 33 records
- Prony Bay, New Caledonia - 66 records
- Bay of Islands, New Zealand - 215 records
- Goat Island & Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand - 223 records
- Kaikōura, New Zealand - 2137 records
- Poor Knights Islands, New Zealand - 235 records
- Sandy Island, Anguilla - 15 records
- Antigua South Coast, Antigua & Barbuda - 5 records
- Abaco, Bahamas - 8 records
- Andros, Bahamas - 1 records
- Bimini, Bahamas - 4 records
- Exuma Cays, Bahamas - 1 records
- Long Island, Bahamas - 2 records
- Nassau & New Providence, Bahamas - 5 records
- South Coast, Barbados - 5 records
- West Coast, Barbados - 5 records
- North Shore, Bermuda - 101 records
- Salt Island & Cooper Island, British Virgin Islands - 99 records
- Virgin Gorda & Anegada, British Virgin Islands - 96 records
- Jardines de la Reina, Cuba - 1 records
- Varadero, Cuba - 2 records
- Cabrits & Northern Coast, Dominica - 58 records
- Soufriere-Scotts Head Marine Reserve, Dominica - 17 records
- Bayahibe & La Romana, Dominican Republic - 742 records
- Punta Cana, Dominican Republic - 21 records
- Sosua & Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic - 4621 records
- Carriacou, Grenada - 26 records
- Southwest Coast, Grenada - 7 records
- Cousteau Reserve, Guadeloupe - 55 records
- Diamond Rock, Martinique - 26 records
- Saint-Pierre, Martinique - 28 records
- Fajardo & East Coast, Puerto Rico - 20 records
- La Parguera, Puerto Rico - 85 records
- Rincon & West Coast, Puerto Rico - 101 records
- St. Kitts, St. Kitts & Nevis - 17 records
- Anse La Raye, St. Lucia - 13 records
- Soufriere & The Pitons, St. Lucia - 9 records
- St. Vincent, St. Vincent & the Grenadines - 22 records
- Tobago Cays, St. Vincent & the Grenadines - 23 records
- Tobago, Trinidad & Tobago - 8 records
- Providenciales, Turks & Caicos - 7 records
- St. Croix, US Virgin Islands - 8 records
- St. Thomas & St. John, US Virgin Islands - 20 records
- Caribbean Coast, Costa Rica - 652 records
- Lake Atitlan, Guatemala - 1 records
- Bocas del Toro, Panama - 112 records
- Coiba National Park, Panama - 103 records
- Rarotonga, Cook Islands - 67 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 2 records
- Bora Bora, French Polynesia - 9 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 2 records
- Moorea & Tahiti, French Polynesia - 351 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 368 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 1 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 2 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 306 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 576 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 1293 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 1 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 1 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 1190 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 314 records
- Sal, Cape Verde - 448 records
- Santiago, Cape Verde - 2 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 28 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 28 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 4 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 2 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 52 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 226 records
- Bazaruto Archipelago, Mozambique - 135 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 219 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 4713 records
- São Tomé, São Tomé & Príncipe - 11 records
- Cape Town & Western Cape, South Africa - 9846 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 63 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 2244 records
- Hikkaduwa & South Coast, Sri Lanka - 3 records
- Dar es Salaam & Offshore Islands, Tanzania - 30 records
- Mafia Island, Tanzania - 4 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 63 records
- Marseille & Calanques, France - 2 records
- Silfra & Thingvellir, Iceland - 474 records
- Strytan & North Iceland, Iceland - 3913 records
- South Coast, Ireland - 268 records
- West Coast, Ireland - 69 records
- Portofino & Liguria, Italy - 2 records
- Azores, Portugal - 539 records
- West Coast (Gothenburg), Sweden - 5 records
- Cornwall & Devon, United Kingdom - 35 records
- Northumberland & Northeast, United Kingdom - 25 records
- Scapa Flow, Orkney, United Kingdom - 243 records
- Scottish East Coast & Borders, United Kingdom - 14 records
- Scottish West Coast, United Kingdom - 17 records
- New Brunswick & Bay of Fundy, Canada - 78 records
- Newfoundland, Canada - 4428 records
- Nova Scotia, Canada - 74 records
- Sea of Cortez, Mexico - 15573 records
- Socorro Islands, Mexico - 2691 records
- Alaska, United States - 1061 records
- Pacific Northwest, United States - 10243 records
- Deep South, Egypt - 2 records
- El Gouna, Egypt - 6 records
- Hurghada, Egypt - 6 records
- Marsa Alam, Egypt - 1 records
- Safaga, Egypt - 5 records
- Eilat, Israel - 1 records
- Arraial do Cabo, Brazil - 399 records
- Salvador & Bahia, Brazil - 175 records
- Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile - 1 records
- Juan Fernandez Islands, Chile - 11 records
- Galápagos Islands, Ecuador - 64 records
- Isla de la Plata, Ecuador - 1844 records
- Lima & Palomino Islands, Peru - 23 records
- Mancora & North Coast, Peru - 1890 records