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Blue whale migration route, one page

Drawing the map.

AnimalRecordedDaysDistanceLongest dayCountries
2007CA-Bmu-108362007-09-08 ~ 2008-05-15843,941 km0 km0
2007CA-Bmu-041742007-09-06 ~ 2008-05-05786,711 km0 km0
2008CR-Bmu-013882008-01-14 ~ 2008-05-10783,659 km106 km0
2008CR-Bmu-008462008-01-17 ~ 2008-07-17777,324 km238 km0
2008CA-Bmu-008252008-07-24 ~ 2009-04-087610,012 km7 km0
2008CA-Bmu-013862008-07-27 ~ 2009-01-23716,274 km45 km0
2008CA-Bmu-041762008-07-27 ~ 2009-03-06569,617 km158 km0
2004CA-Bmu-108432004-08-03 ~ 2004-12-21554,413 km156 km0
2006CA-Bmu-020832006-09-14 ~ 2007-06-185510,426 km100 km0
2005CA-Bmu-108212005-08-14 ~ 2006-01-12505,682 km26 km0
2008CA-Bmu-041772008-07-27 ~ 2008-10-22462,464 km71 km0
1999CA-Bmu-230431999-07-22 ~ 1999-12-15455,765 km94 km0

Distance adds up straight lines between one point per day. The real path was longer.

Mate BR, Palacios DM, Irvine LM, Follett TM. 2019. Data from: Behavioural estimation of blue whale movements in the Northeast Pacific from state-space model analysis of satellite tracks. Movebank Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.5441/001/1.5ph88fk2

Data: Movebank Data Repository. Map: Natural Earth. One point per day.