Whale (disambiguation)

A whale is a sea mammal.

Whale or The Whale may also refer to:

In print

• The Whale, the alternative title of Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick
• "The Whale" (poem), an Old English poem
• Tobias Whale, a comic book villain
• Tannin (monster), a Levantine sea monster translated as "whale" in the King James Version of the Bible
• Whale (improbable), a minor character in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Music

• Whale (band), a Swedish alternative rock band
• "The Whale" (Electric Light Orchestra song) on the album Out of the Blue
• "The Whale" (Tavener), a cantata by John Tavener
• "Whales", a song by Scale the Summit from the album The Collective

Places

United Kingdom

• Whale, Cumbria, England, a hamlet
• Whale Island, Hampshire, England

United States

• Whale Lake, Minnesota
• Whale Rock, Rhode Island
• Whale Cove (Oregon)

Other

• Whale Cove, Nunavut, Canada
• Whale Island, New Zealand
• Whale Island, in the Torres Strait, Australia
• Bay of Whales, Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica

Film and television

• Whale (film), a 1970 Bulgarian comedy
• The Whale (2011 film), a 2011 documentary film
• The Whale (2013 film), a 2013 BBC television film
• "The Whale" (The Office), an episode of the US TV series The Office

Sports

• Hartford Whalers, a former NHL franchise nicknamed "The Whale"
• Chicago Whales, a professional baseball team in the Federal League in 1914 and 1915
• Connecticut Whale, a current American Hockey League franchise
• 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
• Ingalls Rink, Yale University, an ice hockey rink commonly referred to as "The Whale"

Military

• USS Whale, ships of the US Navy
• A-3 Skywarrior, a carrier-based aircraft nicknamed "The Whale"
• Operation Whale, two aborted World War II-era German intelligence plans

People

• Whale (surname)
• Brian Roberts (Australian rules footballer), an Australian football player known as "The Whale"

Other

• Cetus, a constellation also known as "The Whale"
• "whale", slang for a high roller at a casino
• Whale (ship)(1810–1816), a ship
• Whale (computer virus)
• The Whale, a housing project by Danish West 8
• W.H.A.L.E., a fictional vehicle in the G.I. Joe universe
• Waterfront Historic Area League (WHALE)
• an unofficial name for Cthulhu Regio on Pluto

See also

• Wales, a country of the United Kingdom
• Whale barnacle, a mollusk
• Whale louse, a parasitic crustacean
• Whale shark, a fish
• Wael, Arabic surname
• Wail, commune in France
• Wale (disambiguation)
• Wales (disambiguation)
• Whaling, the hunting of whales
• WAAL, a New York radio station