OCEAN · ANIMAL JOURNEYS

Animal Journeys

Famous individually-named tagged animals, drawn as a journey across the sea. Nicole, the great white shark who crossed the Indian Ocean from South Africa to Australia and back; Adelita, the loggerhead turtle who was the first animal ever satellite-tracked across a whole ocean (Mexico to Japan); the record-breaking humpback whale traced 13,046 km between Colombia and Zanzibar \u2014 the first known to switch oceans; and E7, the bar-tailed godwit who flew 11,680 km non-stop from Alaska to New Zealand \u2014 the longest unbroken flight ever recorded; and Phyllis, the deep-diving northern elephant seal who ranged from California past the dateline almost to Japan and back, diving day and night to hundreds of metres the whole way; the record leatherback turtle tracked 20,558 km from Indonesia to Oregon and back \u2014 the farthest a turtle has ever been followed; the record Arctic tern that flew ~96,000 km from the Farne Islands to Antarctica and back \u2014 the longest migration of any animal on Earth; and a sooty shearwater whose tag drew a 64,037 km figure-eight across the whole Pacific. Tap any waypoint for the story of that stage. Our own authored, sourced tracks, transcribed from published tagging and photo-ID science \u2014 not a live feed.