The Whale Museum researchers have recognized their first photographic re-capture of a Humback whale, showing that a single animal visited us twice over a three-year period. It is assumed that individuals return to the same locations in following years, but now we have the proof! 
While evaluating the pictures and adding them to the catalogue of Humpback whales, Mike Tetley recognized that one individual sighted in 2002 had been back again in 2005. This also shows the whale's remarkable ability to navigate their way to familiar feeding grounds after having travelled for thousands of kilometers. 

 Would you like to help?

The Whale Museum of Húsavík encourages the general public to send their photographs of whales and White-beaked dolphins taken while on whale-watching trips around Iceland.  If you have good pictures of a whale fin or fluke, you can help us at the museum by sending us copies of your pictures.  Please be sure to include infomation about the day and location of the whale sighting.  You can send your own pictures to:

The Husavik Whale Museum
P.O. Box 172
640 Húsavík
Iceland
 
We appreciate your contribution to the research program at the Húsavík Whale Museum