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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"
- Cthulhu Regio on Pluto, unofficially called 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, 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
Films
- Whale (film), a 1970 Bulgarian comedy
- The Whale (2011 film), a 2011 documentary film
- The Whale (2013 film), a 2013 BBC television film
Literature
- "The Whale" (poem), an Old English poem
- The Whale, a 2012 stage play by Samuel D. Hunter.
- Moby-Dick, Herman Melville's 1851 novel, also called The Whale
Music
- Whale (band), a Swedish alternative pop rock band
- "The Whale" (Electric Light Orchestra song) on the album Out of the Blue
- "The Whale" (Tavener), a dramatic cantata by the 20th-century English composer John Tavener
- "Whale", a song by Yellow Ostrich from the album "Mistress"
- "Whales", a song by Scale the Summit from the album The Collective
Other uses in arts and entertainment
- "The Whale" (The Office), an episode of the US TV series The Office
- Whale (sculpture), an outdoor wooden sculpture in Cannon Beach, Oregon
Military
- USS Whale, ships of the US Navy
- Douglas A-3 Skywarrior, a carrier-based aircraft nicknamed "The Whale"
- Operation Whale, two aborted World War II-era German intelligence plans
Sports
- Chicago Whales, a professional baseball team in the Federal League in 1914 and 1915
- Connecticut Whale, a former American Hockey League team, now called the Hartford Wolf Pack
- Hartford Whalers, a former NHL franchise nicknamed "The Whale"
- Ingalls Rink, Yale University, an ice hockey rink commonly referred to as "The Whale"
- Irish Whales or "The Whales", nickname of a group of Irish and Irish-American athletes who dominated weight-throwing events in the early 20th century
Other uses
- Whale (computer virus), a malicious program
- Whale (ship), a sloop which disappeared in 1816
- "Whale", slang for high roller, a gambler who consistently wagers large amounts of money
- "Whale", a player of free-to-play video games that frequently spend money and whom drive revenues for the game
- Naver Whale, a Web browser
- The Whale, a housing project by Danish West 8
- Waterfront Historic Area League (WHALE)
See also
- Wael, an Arabic surname
- Wail (disambiguation)
- Wale (disambiguation)
- Wales (disambiguation)
- Wales, a country of the United Kingdom
- WAAL, pronounced "Whale", a New York radio station
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