Two beluga whales living in a Shanghai aquarium set off on a 9,000-plus-kilometer journey in spring to a secluded bay in Iceland, where they will live in a sanctuary billed as the first of its kind for cetaceans.
Known as “Little Grey” and “Little White,” the two female whales, both 12 years old, will travel in spring from Chengfeng Ocean World in Shanghai to a secluded bay in Klettsvik Bay on Heimaey Island off Iceland’s southern coast, which is the world’s first open-sea beluga whale sanctuary.