Links:

ABC search (a search for ‘whale’ will return many stories)

A hotlist on whaling (links to many sites on this topic)

New Zealand fur seal (information from Tasmania 's Parks and Wildlife Service)

National Geographic (search for news stories about ‘seals’, ‘whales’ or ‘whaling’)

National Library of Australia (search their pictorial collection)

Screen saver (download from the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society)

Sealing ( Macquarie Island - use dropdown menu above title to navigate all five pages)

Seals on South Georgia Island (look around, zoom in and out - requires QuickTime)

SeaWorld

Shore-based whaling in Tasmania (use the drop-down menu above the title to fully explore this topic from Parks and Wildlife)

Southern right whale (information from Tasmania 's Parks and Wildlife Service)

Tasmanian images (search State Library for ‘whale’, ‘whales’, ‘whaler’, ‘whaling’, etc)

Video clip (whale watching in Antarctica - click on whale image; windows media player format)

The whale trail (extensive ABC whale watching site - use the more facts link at the page end)

Whale dreams (extensive but older ABC whale and whale watching site)

WhaleNet (interactive educational website from Boston , includes seals - teacher and student pages)

Whales: a thematic web unit (primary)

Whales and whaling

Whales in Tasmanian waters (comprehensive information from Parks and Wildlife)

Whaling inventions

World Wildlife Fund (several publications in PDF, for example, Should whales be culled?)