1112-8550 - Skull from a short-finned pilot whale (Globicephala Macrorhynchus), Urbina Beach, Isabela Island, Galapagos Islands, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Ecuador, South America

1112-8491 - Skeleton from a Bryde's whale (Balaenoptera brydei) in the lava on Fernandina Island, Galapagos Islands, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Ecuador, South America

1112-7611 - The town of Sisimiut as seen through whale jawbone arch, Western Greenland, Polar Regions

832-394196 - Archway made of whalebone, Winter, Sisimuit, Greenland, Denmark, North America

1113-105811 - Detail of a chain made from carved whale bones on a man with tattoos at the Te Tumu Cultural Center, Tekoapa, Ua Huka, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia, South Pacific

1113-102586 - The biologist und nature guide Salvador Cazar standing next to the carcass of a whale, Punta Espinoza on Fernandina Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

911-10802 - A householder in Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands who has created a whale museum, with an anti whaling slant.

911-10209 - The Christian, Christ Church Cathedral in Port Stanley, the capital of the Falkland Islands, the most southerly cathedral in the world, with a whale bone arch from Blue whale lower jaw bones.

911-10210 - The Christian, Christ Church Cathedral in Port Stanley, the capital of the Falkland Islands, the most southerly cathedral in the world, with a whale bone arch from Blue whale lower jaw bones.

816-8037 - Whale bone on the shore of Diskobukta, Svalbard, Arctic

832-374429 - Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) feeding on the remains of a whale, Kaktovik, North Slope, Beaufort Sea, Alaska, USA, America

832-377914 - Christ Church Cathedral and a whale bone arch, Port Stanley, capital of the Falkland Islands, Malvinas Islands, British Overseas Territory, South America

1112-1920 - Blue whale lower jawbones form an arch in front of the Anglican Church, Stanley, Falklands, UK Overseas Protectorate, South America

1112-1915 - Whale jawbone archway to church in Sisimiut, Greenland, Polar Regions

832-335557 - Skeleton of a whale , Las Salinas , Fuerteventura , Canary Islands

1167-64 - Christ Church cathedral green and houses, seen through whale bone arch, Stanley, East Falkland, Falkland Islands, South America

832-300591 - Footbridge leading under an arch made of a whale's jaw bone, Local History Museum, Qeqertarsuaq, Disko Island, Disko Bay, Greenland, Arctic

832-296816 - The Stegosaurus is called also plate lizard and in the jurassic period occurred. Its length amounted to approx. 8 m, the height of approx. 2.75 m and it had a mass of approx. 3 tons. It had a whale-nut-large brain and bone plates at the back. The Stegosau

1131-415 - Whale Bone Alley, Ittygran Island, Chukotka, Russia, Eurasia

1131-416 - Whale Bone Alley, Ittygran Island, Chukotka, Russia, Eurasia

832-179373 - Historic Inuit house from the Thule culture made out of whale bones, Resolute Bay, Cornwallis Island, Northwest Passage, Nunavut, Canada, Arctic

832-178912 - Historic Inuit house from the Thule culture made out of whale bones, Resolute Bay, Cornwallis Island, Northwest Passage, Nunavut, Canada, Arctic

832-178901 - Historic Inuit house from the Thule Culture made out of whale bones, Resolute Bay, Cornwallis Island, Northwest Passage, Nunavut, Canada, Arctic

1112-791 - Whale remains in Gashamna (Goose Bay), Hornsund, Spitsbergen Island, Svalbard Archipelago, Norway, Scandinavia, Europe

1112-792 - Whale remains in Gashamna (Goose Bay), Hornsund, Spitsbergen Island, Svalbard Archipelago, Norway, Scandinavia, Europe

1112-773 - Whale remains in Gashamna (Goose Bay), Hornsund, Spitsbergen Island, Svalbard Archipelago, Norway, Scandinavia, Europe

1113-89956 - Whale Bone Sculpture, Stanley, East Falkland, Falkland Islands

1113-45387 - Scrimshaw art, graven whale tooth, near Horta, Faial island, Azores, Portugal

1113-41950 - Whale Jaw Bone as entrance to the main house in the Museum, Carl-Haeberlin-Friesenmuseum, Wyk, North Sea Island Foehr, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

857-33742 - Marine Scientist Dan DenDanto works on the ribs of a 45' sperm whale articulation at the whaling museum in Nantucket.

1112-186 - Whale skeleton, Fernandina Island, Galapagos Islands, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Ecuador, South America

1036-217 - Upper and lower jaw bones (+ one rib) of a blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) at an old whaling station. BBC Broadcaster John Craven for scale. Snaefellsness Peninsular, Iceland.

1036-216 - Upper and lower jaw bones (+ one rib) of a blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) at an old whaling station. Snaefellsness Peninsular, Iceland.

909-205 - Whalebones - relicts from early whaling in the Deep South. Wiencke Island, Antarctic Peninsula

1036-218 - Beluga grave yard at an old whaling station on Spitsbergen. Svalbard.

1024-14 - Orange Sea Lichen (Caloplaca marina) on whale bone, Devon, UK

921-791 - Whalebone Alley grand vista, female tourist standing on cliff face, Itygran Island (Bering Sea) Russia, Asia. MORE INFO: Whale Bone Alley was discovered by Soviet archaeologists in 1976, but has remained untouched since and little is known of this place. There is a long double line of bowhead whale bones -- jaws and ribs -- running parallel along the shore for hundreds of yards. Many of the bones, especially the enormous jaw bones, are still standing, propped up by lichen-covered rocks. The location is thought to have been used in about 1300 as a ceremonial site, for a men's secret society or feasting site.

921-701 - Whalebone Alley, Bowhead whale bone, Itygran Island (Bering Sea) Russia, Asia. MORE INFO: Whale Bone Alley was discovered by Soviet archaeologists in 1976, but has remained untouched since and little is known of this place. There is a long double line of bowhead whale bones -- jaws and ribs -- running parallel along the shore for hundreds of yards. Many of the bones, especially the enormous jaw bones, are still standing, propped up by lichen-covered rocks. The location is thought to have been used in about 1300 as a ceremonial site, for a men's secret society or feasting site.

921-703 - Whalebone Alley, Bowhead whale bones, Itygran Island (Bering Sea) Russia, Asia. MORE INFO: Whale Bone Alley was discovered by Soviet archaeologists in 1976, but has remained untouched since and little is known of this place. There is a long double line of bowhead whale bones -- jaws and ribs -- running parallel along the shore for hundreds of yards. Many of the bones, especially the enormous jaw bones, are still standing, propped up by lichen-covered rocks. The location is thought to have been used in about 1300 as a ceremonial site, for a men's secret society or feasting site.

921-699 - Whalebone Alley grand vista, female tourist standing on cliff face, Itygran Island (Bering Sea) Russia, Asia. MORE INFO: Whale Bone Alley was discovered by Soviet archaeologists in 1976, but has remained untouched since and little is known of this place. There is a long double line of bowhead whale bones -- jaws and ribs -- running parallel along the shore for hundreds of yards. Many of the bones, especially the enormous jaw bones, are still standing, propped up by lichen-covered rocks. The location is thought to have been used in about 1300 as a ceremonial site, for a men's secret society or feasting site.

921-702 - Whalebone Alley, female tourist sitting on bowhead whale bone, Itygran Island (Bering Sea) Russia, Asia. MORE INFO: Whale Bone Alley was discovered by Soviet archaeologists in 1976, but has remained untouched since and little is known of this place. There is a long double line of bowhead whale bones -- jaws and ribs -- running parallel along the shore for hundreds of yards. Many of the bones, especially the enormous jaw bones, are still standing, propped up by lichen-covered rocks. The location is thought to have been used in about 1300 as a ceremonial site, for a men's secret society or feasting site.

921-700 - Whalebone Alley, female tourist standing around still intact extremly old inuit elder grave, skeleton still present. Itygran Island (Bering Sea) Russia, Asia. MORE INFO: Whale Bone Alley was discovered by Soviet archaeologists in 1976, but has remained untouched since and little is known of this place. There is a long double line of bowhead whale bones -- jaws and ribs -- running parallel along the shore for hundreds of yards. Many of the bones, especially the enormous jaw bones, are still standing, propped up by lichen-covered rocks. The location is thought to have been used in about 1300 as a ceremonial site, for a men's secret society or feasting site.

921-704 - Whalebone Alley, female tourist standing between bow head whale rib bones, Itygran Island (Bering Sea) Russia, Asia. MORE INFO: Whale Bone Alley was discovered by Soviet archaeologists in 1976, but has remained untouched since and little is known of this place. There is a long double line of bowhead whale bones -- jaws and ribs -- running parallel along the shore for hundreds of yards. Many of the bones, especially the enormous jaw bones, are still standing, propped up by lichen-covered rocks. The location is thought to have been used in about 1300 as a ceremonial site, for a men's secret society or feasting site.

921-9 - Whale Bone Alley, tombs. Lorino, Siberia, Chukotskiy Peninsular, Russia

921-810 - Whalebone Alley grand vista, high altitude flora, Itygran Island (Bering Sea) Russia, Asia. MORE INFO: Whale Bone Alley was discovered by Soviet archaeologists in 1976, but has remained untouched since and little is known of this place. There is a long double line of bowhead whale bones -- jaws and ribs -- running parallel along the shore for hundreds of yards. Many of the bones, especially the enormous jaw bones, are still standing, propped up by lichen-covered rocks. The location is thought to have been used in about 1300 as a ceremonial site, for a men's secret society or feasting site.

979-7919 - Snow-covered whale bones on Jougla Point, in Port Lockroy at the western end of Wiencke Island, Antarctica, Southern Ocean

979-7096 - Views of the Jougla Point, Antarctica. Jougla Point is located in Port Lockroy at the western end of Wiencke Island

979-7458 - Snow-covered whale bones on Jougla Point, in Port Lockroy at the western end of Wiencke Island, Antarctica, Southern Ocean

911-2367 - Whale bone marking the shaman's grave on Shishmaref, a tiny island between Alaska and Siberia in the Chukchi sea, home to around 600 Inuits (Eskimos, United States of America, North America

911-2518 - An Inuit man with a traditional eskimo art on Shishmaref, a tiny island inhabited by around 600 Inuits, between Alaska and Siberia in the Chukchi Sea, United States of America, North America

911-359 - A whale bone arch and old vats for rendering down whale blubber in Ilulissat, Greenland, Polar Regions

817-261945 - Whalebone ivory scrimshaw art showing whaling ship Nantucket Whaling Museum, Nantucket Island, Cape Cod Massachusetts, USA

817-261948 - Scrimshaw whalebone ivory art Carved model of whaling ship in the Whaling Museum, Nantucket, off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA

641-12332 - Old whaling station, Grytviken, South Georgia, South Atlantic

641-12247 - Cathedral and Whale Bone Arch, Port Stanley, Falkland Islands, South America

641-12246 - Cathedral and Whale Bone Arch, Port Stanley, Falkland Islands, South America

641-12208 - Old whale skeleton, Jougla Point near Port Lockroy, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica, Polar Regions

190-1053 - Eskimo whale bone mask, Portland Museum, Portland, Oregon, United States of America, North America

197-6017 - Eskimos, sledge and whale bones at Yanrakino village (population 150), Chukchi Peninsula, Russian Far East, Russia, Asia

39-2863 - Tuqilaks, statues carved from whale teeth, at Angmagssalik, Greenland, Polar Regions