Bowhead whale : Isabella Bay, Nunavut

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A person in red kayak watches as a bowhead whale tail-slaps with rolling mountains in the background. The bowhead was also known as the Greenland right whale or Arctic whale. American whalemen called them the steeple-top, polar whale, or Russia or Russian whale. (Family: balaenidae; binomial name: balaena mysticetus).

In Collection:
Creator Subject Language Identifier
  • COWAN_PH_272; Cowan_PN_481; Cowan Professional Lectures Box 5
Resource type Rights statement Extent
  • 1 slide : colour
Alternative title
  • Bowhead whale tail-slapping
Geographic coverage Coordinates
  • 69.61772, -67.547
Additional physical characteristics
  • Folder entitled "Marine Mammal Slides". 13 pages of slides, many of seals, sea otters, sea lions, elephant seals, seal pups, humpback whales, white sided dolphins, gray whales, leopard seals, Zalophus, Galapagos fur seals, walruses; dates from 1980s, 1990s, 1950s.
Physical repository Collection
  • Ian McTaggart Cowan Collection
Provider Sponsor
  • Digitization undertaken with the support of Ann Schau.
Genre Fonds title Fonds identifier Date digitized
  • 2012
Technical note
  • Digitized by Briony Penn. Migration metadata by KD.
Rights
  • Contact UVic Special Collections and University Archives for access to the original resource and for reproduction requests. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
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