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June 26, 2007
Migaloo the white whale has sparked a fresh whale-watching frenzy after being spotted frolicking off Heron Island off the central Queensland coast. The elusive albino – believed to be the only pure-white humpback in the world – has been a magnet for whale watchers since his first sighting off the Tweed coast in northern New South Wales in 1991. Channel 9’s latest footage of Migaloo – Aboriginal for ``white fella’’ – comes just days after the 14m white humpback was spotted off Point Lookout on North Stradbroke Island.

25 June 2007
A record number of humpback whales are passing North Stradbroke Island as UQ researchers start aerial surveys to verify their numbers. The first whales for this year's survey of an estimated 10,000 strong humpback population were counted from Point Lookout on North Stradbroke Island last Tuesday on their annual migration into the Great Barrier Reef. Among them is Migaloo, the rare all-white whale.

Migaloo and his growing herd move north

(not Migaloo)
June 19, 2007
A humpback whale entangled in crayfishing gear may soon be in sight of the North Island and the Department of Conservation is urging people to report sightings so a rescue can get under way.

Fears for whale caught in crayfish gear

Thu Apr 26, 2007

Wednesday 05 July 2006
Southern Cross University researchers had a spectacular start to the annual two-week Cape Byron Whale Research Project as Migaloo trekked past the coast flanked by several other whales and pods of dolphins yesterday (June 26). The annual count started on Sunday, June 25, and will continue for 13 days until July 7. Dan Burns, who is one of the co-ordinators of the project and a PhD student with the Southern Cross University Whale Research Centre, was on the water hoping to collect another sloughed skin sample from Migaloo as he passed.

Monday, 3 July 2006

Sunday, June 25, 2006
Migaloo is on his way to Queensland waters. The rare white whale, Migaloo, has been sighted near the Solitary Islands off Coffs Harbour on the New South Wales mid-north coast. The whale is on its northerly migration from Antarctica to breeding grounds in Queensland.

Migaloo spotted off Coffs Harbour

Like the most fabled of whales, Migaloo is elusive. The "white fella" has been seen many times off the east coast of Australia over the past 15 years, but has also disappeared for up to three years at a time. So when the whale researcher Daniel Burns heard too late that the world's only totally white humpback had passed Cape Byron on a northward migration last June, his disappointment was real.

Stormy seas for Migaloo and friends

Thursday, 7 October 2004 – A historic genetic test has confirmed Migaloo the white whale is male. Researchers at Lismore's Southern Cross University in northern New South Wales collected skin samples from the mammal as it travelled with another whale on its southern migration. The University's Dan Burns says it is the first time a genetic sample has been taken from an albino whale or dolphin. He says researchers were extremely fortunate.

June 28, 2004 – The romantic notion of a white whale hit unprecedented amorous heights yesterday when Migaloo, the world's only identified pale humpback, paraded what is thought to be a new girlfriend off the state's Far North Coast.

When an eligible whale leaves his bachelor pod