Around two million tourists head to Iceland each year. However, most of them base their travels in and around the capital, ...

On Dec. 6, Iceland’s caretaker government announced it had issued five-year licenses to hunt fin and minke whales in Icelandic waters. It granted the fin whale hunting license to Hvalur hf., ...

The Icelandic Coast Guard rescued an entangled whale during a six-hour operation, photos show. Photo from the Icelandic Coast ...

Mr Fridrik Armann Gudmundsson, the owner of Saelkerafelagid, said his store is one of only 10 remaining in Iceland that sell whale meat, and probably the only one in Iceland’s capital Reykjavík ...

But seeing humpback whales in the English Channel is far more rare. Thea Taylor, Managing Director at the Sussex Dolphin ...

Forget voyaging to Alaska or trekking to the fjords of Iceland — if you’re hoping to catch sight of a humpback whale in your lifetime, you could be in with a chance right here in the UK. In the past ...

Many members of the international community consider whale-hunting a barbaric practice that should have been banned decades ago.  But some countries have ...

Photo from the Icelandic Coast Guard An entangled whale was set free off the coast of Iceland, following a daring, multi-hour rescue mission. The incident took place off Viðey — an island near ...

For humpback whales specifically, northern Norway, Greenland and Iceland are hotspots. In the winter in Norway, humpback whales gather in the fjords near Tromso in search of the huge schools of ...