Where can you see the Humpback Whale?
Some of the best places to see the Humpback Whale in the wild include Parque Nacional de Galápagos (Ecuador), Neko Harbour (Antarctica) and Paulet Island (Antarctica) — among 29 wildlife hotspots across 10 countries, including Antarctica, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Greenland and Norway. Every hotspot below shows real sighting data and the best seasons to visit.
Brown Bluff
Brown Bluff, Antarctica
+18 birds+3 mammals
Where rust-colored volcanic peaks pierce the Antarctic Peninsula’s icy realm, a geologist’s dreamscape unfolds beneath towering cliffs of iron oxide […]
VIEW PROTECTED LANDSCAPECooper Bay
Cooper Bay, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
+27 birds+9 mammals
Where black-sand beaches meet towering cliffs striped with cascading meltwater, one of the Southern Ocean’s most dramatic amphitheaters reveals itself. […]
VIEW PROTECTED LANDSCAPECuverville Island
Cuverville Island, Antarctica
+14 birds+7 mammals
Where black volcanic peaks jut from the Gerlache Strait, penguin colonies blanket the rocky shores in a cacophony of sound […]
VIEW ISLAND & ARCHIPELAGODanco Island
Danco Island, Antarctica
+14 birds+5 mammals
Dramatic black rock pierces the Antarctic Peninsula’s icy waters, crowned with permanent snow and ringed by calving glaciers that thunder […]
VIEW ISLAND & ARCHIPELAGODeception Island
Gabriel de Castilla Base, Antarctica
+16 birds+6 mammals
Steaming geothermal vents pierce a landscape of blackened volcanic sand and ice, where the earth’s raw power still trembles beneath […]
VIEW ISLAND & ARCHIPELAGODisko Bay
Kitsissuarsuit, Greenland
+15 birds+5 mammals
Icebergs the size of cathedrals calve continuously from Greenland’s second-largest glacier into waters that pulse with Arctic vitality. Here, where […]
VIEW PROTECTED LANDSCAPEEl Vizcaíno
Laguna San Ignacio, Mexico
+101 birds+15 mammals
Where the Baja California peninsula thins into a tapestry of salt lagoons and coastal desert, one of Mexico’s most biodiverse […]
VIEW BIOSPHERE RESERVEFortuna Bay
Stromness, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
+26 birds+9 mammals
Where tussock grasslands sweep down to black-sand beaches and elephant seals haul out in thunderous colonies, the raw sub-Antarctic landscape […]
VIEW PROTECTED LANDSCAPEGlacier Bay National Park
Unorganized Borough, United States
+12 birds+19 mammals
Tidewater glaciers calve thunderous bergs into pristine fjords where the Alaskan wilderness reaches its most dramatic expression. Spanning 26,400 square […]
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