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15. June 2006

Poster for the Conference of the American Cetacean Society

 

Micheal Tetley, is submitting an abstract for the upcoming American Cetacean Society Conference in California. The proposal describes the knowledge gained on the migration of the white-beaked dolphin in Icelandic waters. Two years ago, Birgit Jansen, a visitor, took photographs of white-beaked dolphins while on a whale-watching trip in Olafsvík, West Iceland. She then sent her pictures to the Museum, where we compared them to the pictures in our database. Mike used a computer software for the evaluation and found that one of the dolphins she had photographed was the same individual we had sighted only one week later in Skjálfandi Bay. Within a period of one week, the dolphin had traveled from the west coast to the northeast, covering almost half of the Icelandic coastline!

 

 


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24. May 2010

Humpback whale from Skjálfandi Bay photographed off Africa

It is still quite early in the season but the museum’s researchers have already been out on the whale watching boats several times to collect data and take pictures of whales that have been sighted during the trips.

21. December 2009

Ship-building and Whale Watching in the Whale Museum

The Whale Watching room in the Húsavík Whale Museum is now under renovation

13. November 2009

Work in Progress "CARCASSES" The Slaughterhouse Revisited

Sunday November 22nd from 13:00 to 15:00 the public is invited to an open house in the Húsavík Whale Museum.


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