MELISSA FARLOW_MM7258_1075106.jpg
A humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) surfaces and dives into Stephens Passage. Studies how the humpback from Southeast Alaska travels mostly to Hawaii to breed and returns to the cold Alaskan waters.
- Copyright
- MELISSA FARLOW
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- 3940x2654 / 1.6MB
- Keywords
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alaska, alexander archipelago, anatomy, and threatened animals, animal behavior, animals, boats, breaching, color image, day, endangered, fluke, geography, humpback whales, juneau, mammals, marine mammals, megaptera novaeangliae, mountains, national forests (alaska), nobody, north america, one animal, outdoors, photography, rare, splashes, sprays, stephens passage, tails, tongass national forest, united states, water, water splashes, water sprays, whales
- Contained in galleries
- Tongass_National Geographic magazine_7/2007
