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Vanuatu
Solomon Iss.
Tokelau
Tuvalu
Samoa
American
Samoa
New
Caledonia
Tonga Niue
Fiji
Norfolk
Island
Papua New
Guinea
Cook
Iss.
Australia
New
Zealand
Pitcairn
French Polynesia
Federal States
of Micronesia
Hawaii
Palmyra Atoll
130⁰ E
120⁰ W
60⁰ S
Sources: UNEP/CMS MoU on the Conservation of Cetaceans
and their Habitats in the Pacific Islands Region; Garrigue, C. et
al.,
Movement of individual humpback whales between
wintering grounds of Oceania (South Pacific), 1999 to 2004
, J.
Cetacean Res. Manage, in press
Exclusive Economic Zone
Countries participating in the MoU on the
Conservation of Cetaceans and their Habitats
in the Pacific Islands Region
Inter-annual movements of humpback whales
between different over-wintering grounds in the
South Pacific
Tropic of Cancer
Area covered by the MoU on the Conservation
of Cetaceans and their Habitats in the Pacific
Islands Region
Humpback whale movements within the South Pacific
Summer feeding grounds
Winter breeding grounds
Probable resident population
Summer and winter relates to seasons
in the northern Hemisphere.
Sources: adapted from CONABIO, Informe final
del Proyecto W024: La ballena jorobada
(Megaptera novaeangliae) en la Norma Oficial
Mexicana, 2002.
The long migration of the humpback whale
Figure 16:
Humpback whale migrations.
Figure 17:
Humpback whale movements in the South Pacific.