Migration: A Living Atlas

Seasonal position

20.0° N · 156.0° W

January 15

Day 15 365

Deep winter

Humpback whale

Megaptera novaeangliae

North Pacific passage

In warm Hawaiian shallows, adults court, mate and calve. Many fast through winter, living on the energy gathered in northern feeding grounds.

Now Winter sanctuary

Hawaiian Islands · North Pacific

A migration is not a line. It is a moving agreement between memory, weather, food and time.

Route is schematic