Whale (disambiguation)
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A whale is a sea mammal.
Whale or The Whale may also refer to:
Places
Extraterrestrial
Cetus, a constellation also known as "The Whale"
Belton Regio on Pluto, unofficially nicknamed the Whale
United Kingdom
Whale, Cumbria, England, a hamlet
Whale Island, Hampshire, England
United States
Whale Cove (Oregon)
Whale Lake, Minnesota
Whale Rock, Rhode Island
Elsewhere
Bay of Whales, Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica
Whale Cove, Nunavut, Canada
Whale Island, the English name of Moutohora Island in New Zealand
Whale Island, an island in the Torres Strait, Australia
Whale Sound, Greenland
People
Whale (surname)
Brian Roberts (Australian rules footballer), an Australian football player known as "The Whale"
Arts and entertainment
Fictional entities
Whale (improbable), a minor character in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
W.H.A.L.E., a fictional vehicle in the G.I. Joe universe
Tannin (monster), a Levantine sea monster translated as "whale" in the King James Version of the Bible
Tobias Whale, a comic book villain
Dale "The Whale" Biederbeck, a character from Monk
Films
Whale (film), a 1970 Bulgarian comedy satirizing the defects of the Bulgarian economic and social structure
The Whale (2011 film), a 2011 documentary film about a killer whale (orca) living in Nootka Sound, Canada
The Whale (2013 film), a 2013 BBC television film about the Essex whaleship and its sinking in 1820
The Whale (2022 film), a drama film directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Brendan Fraser and based on the 2012 play
A Whale (film), a 2024 neo-noir fantasy thriller film
Literature
"The Whale" (poem), an Old English poem
The Whale (play), a 2012 stage play by Samuel D. Hunter
Moby-Dick or The Whale, an 1851 novel by Herman Melville
Whale (novel), a 2004 novel by Cheon Myeong-kwan
Music
Whale (band), a Swedish alternative pop rock band
"Whale" (song), by Catatonia, 1994
"The Whale" (Tavener), a dramatic cantata by John Tavener
"Whale", a song by Alchemist from Jar of Kingdom
"Whales", a song by Scale the Summit from The Collective
"The Whale", an instrumental by Electric Light Orchestra from Out of the Blue
Radio
KAGT, previously branded as The Whale, an Abilene, Texas radio station
WAAL, branded as 99.1 The Whale, a New York radio station
WBHU, previously branded as 105.5 The Whale, a St.
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