The main Australian calving areas of the humpback seem to be off of Queensland (Great Barrier Reef) and Western Australia... http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/publicspecies.pl?taxon_id=38

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  1. JenJuly 11, 2013 at 1:52 PM

    Just noticing... The post times are in US time, haha :) (This was posted around 6:50 am here)

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