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Kimberley Whale Watching

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Western Australia's Kimberley is a world class whale watching region and home to the world's largest population of Humpback whales. Every year the whales make an epic migration from their feeding grounds in the Antarctic to the Kimberley's warm, tropical waters, where they mate and calve, sheltered by the islands and reefs of the Buccaneer and Bonaparte Archipelagoes.

Now estimated at approximately 30,000 individuals, the whales have staged a magnificent recovery since the cessation of whaling in the 1970s.

Kimberley Whale Watching is an independent Broome based research group which has been studying the distribution and behaviour of these magnificent Kimberley Whales since 2006, building a database of whale distribution and a film and photographic library of whales, whale behaviour and
tail fluke photos for identification purposes.

Click to watch ABC TV’s “Catalyst” story on
Richard Costin from Kimberley Whale Watching
and the west coast humpback whales
(screened ABC TV - 18 August 2011)

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Kimberley Whale Festival 2010

Kimberley Whale Watching's 2011 Cetacean Survey. The report highlights the importance of the Dampier Peninsula and the outer shoals and reefs to the Breeding Stock D population of Humpback whales Download here

Whale tail - Kimberley Whale Watching
Both 2011 "Kimberley Whales and Reefs" surveys a great success. Lots of new calves and again a great concentration of whales between Adele Island, the Lacepede Islands and Quandong Point.