Research news and updates

Recently we finished our contest “Name a Whale Day 2020”, where we were looking for ideas how to name three humpback whales. The winners were: Zebra, Reika a...

When is the best time to see whales? This is a frequently asked question done by our passengers when they are coming on board. Surprisingly, such a simple qu...

New additions to our humpback whale catalogue were added on 25 February 2020. They were the first two humpback whales of the year and unknown animals in the ...

"It's that time of the year again when the whales that migrated to their breeding grounds over winter to the warmer, sub-tropical waters, will be returning t...

There are over 30,000 white-beaked dolphins in and around Icelandic waters and they are resident here. This means they stay in the same areas all year long. ...

Minke whales were our most frequently sighted species in the summer of 2019. By using the simple, non-invasive method of photo-identification we can estimate...

Orcas / killer whales are toothed whales that actually belong in the oceanic dolphin family. The species is not too common in the Reykjavík area but we see t...

A little insight on what we are working on with our Minke whales… Currently we are working together with our MSc student Eline from the Netherlands to gain a...

"It seems like the humpback whales are slowly beginning their migration into the more tropical waters! In the past week, we have encountered 3 new humpback w...

Since our tagging expeditions earlier this month in collaboration and under the expert leadership of Marine Biologist Jacob Levenson, we have been eager to f...

We have been collecting data on the diversity, distribution, abundance and site fidelity of minke whales and humpback whales in the waters of Faxaflói since ...

White-beaked dolphins have been a focus species of our research since 2007, just like the humpback whales and minke whales. We mainly collect our data for th...

On 23 July 2018, for the first time in Elding's history, we came up on a north atlantic right whale - one of the most endangered of all large whales. There h...

Two blue whales were encountered from Reykjavík on Iceland's National Day, 17 June 2019! This is the first time in Elding's 19 year history at sea that these...

Elding began its dedicated research of the three main encountered species, white-beaked dolphins, minke whales and humpback whales, in the year 2007. Our res...

How do we determine the scientific names of new humpback whales? Well, it's really quite simple, actually. The name consists of: MN, which is the Latin name ...

Elding has a supported whale research by local and international scientists for years and sometimes they join us onboard to study the whales in Faxaflói bay....

Elding participates in the Flukebook project; a programme that connects whale watchers around the world so that they can share photo-id information and learn...

We've been quite lucky with many sightings of humpback whales this May and so far we've been able to identify them as 15 different individuals with 12 of the...