Where can you see the Bowhead Whale?
Some of the best places to see the Bowhead Whale in the wild include Disko Bay (Greenland), Russian Arctic National Park (Russia) and Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge (United States). Every hotspot below shows real sighting data and the best seasons to visit.
Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge
Alaska, United States
+391 birds+58 mammals
Where the North Pacific collides with Alaska's rugged coastline, a sprawling archipelago of islands, rocky outcrops, and coastal headlands forms one of North America's most remote…
VIEW WILDLIFE SANCTUARYDisko Bay
Kitsissuarsuit, Greenland
+46 birds+9 mammals
Where Arctic fjords carve deep into Greenland's western coast, Disko Bay creates a protected landscape of extraordinary ecological complexity. The waters here merge temperate Atlantic currents…
VIEW PROTECTED LANDSCAPERussian Arctic National Park
Russia
+23 birds+3 mammals
Across the stark tundra of Russia's northwestern Arctic, where permafrost defines the land and sunlight dictates the rhythm of life, lies a landscape sculpted by ice…
VIEW NATIONAL PARK