The Balaena Islands are a small group of rocky islands lying close to the coast of Antarctica, 19 kilometres (10 nmi) northeast of Cape Folger. They were first mapped from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946–47, and were named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after the British floating factory Balaena, from which sketches of Knox Coast and Budd Coast were obtained as the result of reconnaissance flights and shipboard observations in 1947.[1]
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The BalaenaIslands are a small group of rocky islands lying close to the coast of Antarctica, 19 kilometres (10 nmi) northeast of Cape Folger. They were...
whale (Balaena mysticetus) is a species of baleen whale belonging to the family Balaenidae and is the only living representative of the genus Balaena. It...
Eastwind) in conducting research in the McMurdo Sound region and in the BalaenaIslands during the 1955-56 season. 84°53′S 86°42′W / 84.883°S 86.700°W /...
extending north-northwest from the coast of Antarctica, just west of BalaenaIslands. A portion of the bank was sounded by ships of U.S. Navy Operation...
east of Suspires Bay in the west part of Joinville Island. Surveyed by the FIDS in 1953-54. The Balaena (Alexander Fairweather, master) was one of the Dundee...
western population that summers near the Commander Islands, the coast of Kamchatka, along the Kuril Islands and in the Sea of Okhotsk is thought to number...
Erxleben. A number of 18th century authors described the gray whale as Balaena gibbosa, the "whale with six bosses", apparently based on a brief note...
assessed) Blue whale, North Pacific and North Atlantic stocks Bowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus (five populations assessed, from critically endangered to LR/cd)...
is based on Balaena quoyi (Fischer, 1829), which was the name given to a 16.7 m (55 ft) specimen seen on the shores of the Falkland Islands by Monsieur...
2016-12-11. COSEWIC Assessment and Update Status Report on the Bowhead Whale Balaena mysticetus (PDF). COSEWIC. 2005. ISBN 0-662-40573-0. "Coral Harbour - Land...
The former description was used as the primary basis for the species Balaena physalus by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. In 1804, Bernard Germain de Lacépède...
assumed it must be an already known species and assigned his specimen to Balaena rostrata, a name given to the northern bottlenose whale by Otto Friedrich...
all thought to be a single species, Balaena mysticetus. The southern right whale was initially described as Balaena australis by Desmoulins in 1822. Eventually...
a 9.8 m (32 ft) whale stranded near Grömitz, in Schleswig-Holstein, as Balaena rostrata (Balaenoptera acutorostrata). In 1823, the French naturalist Georges...
were ever used as calving grounds. Other parts of coastlines or oceanic islands from Iberian Peninsula and Portugal to Morocco in north to south possibly...
individuals with a density of 4.8 per square km in the tributaries around the islands. 2.7 and 2.0 were observed along the banks. Additionally, another study...
glaciated, with large unglaciated areas on the largest islands and many of the smallest ones. The islands have a combined coastline of 4,425 kilometers (2,750 mi)...
in the UK for an undisclosed sum. Balaena Ltd In May 2022, Gibdock Ltd was wholly acquired by a UK company, Balaena Ltd for an undisclosed sum. This acquisition...
authoritative classification listed just two species: Balaena glacialis (the right whales) and Balaena mysticetus (the bowheads). In 2000, two studies of...
features such as Balaena Bay, Hataitai Beach and Shelly Bay. Prior to the Haowhenua earthquake in about 1460 AD, Miramar was an island and Evans Bay would...
described the species, converting Brisson's name to its Latin equivalent, Balaena novaeangliae. In 1804, Bernard Germain de Lacépède shifted the humpback...
Joinville Island, on 24 December 1892. Four ships took part: Thomas Robertson, Active, with Charles W. Donald Alexander Fairweather, Balaena, with William...
provide propulsion underwater. Family Balaenidae (right whales) Genus: Balaena Bowhead whale, B. mysticetus LC Genus: Eubalaena North Atlantic right whale...
coasts of Iceland, Norway, the Valdés Peninsula of Argentina, the Crozet Islands, New Zealand and parts of the west coast of North America, from California...
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