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Conservationists and photographers, Richard Costin and Annabelle Sandes, spent up to three months a year between 2006 and 2008 living on a small houseboat on the remote Kimberley coast at Camden Sound, observing and filming Western Australia's Group lV population of Humpback Whales.
Using fixed observation points and boat transects, they sought to gain futher understanding of how the whales are using the tides and currents, islands and reefs, and to ascertain distribution and population numbers. Camden Sound is the main "maternity ward" and breeding area for Western Australia's Group lV population (also known as Breeding Group D), but the researchers confirmed that the entire Kimberley coast from Broome to the Maret Islands, is of great importance to the whales.
A PDF of the report can be viewed and downloaded from their website www.kimberleywhales.com.au
Photo:
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