# Whale (disambiguation)

A whale is a sea mammal.
Whale or The Whale may also refer to:

## Places
### Extraterrestrial

* Cetus, a constellation also known as "The Whale"
* Belton Regio on Pluto, unofficially nicknamed the Whale

### United Kingdom

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

### United States

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

### Elsewhere

* Bay of Whales, Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica
* Whale Cove, Nunavut, Canada
* Whale Island, the English name of Moutohora Island in New Zealand
* Whale Island, an island in the Torres Strait, Australia
* Whale Sound, Greenland

## People

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

## Arts and entertainment
### Fictional entities

* Whale (improbable), a minor character in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
* W.H.A.L.E., a fictional vehicle in the G.I. Joe universe
* Tannin (monster), a Levantine sea monster translated as "whale" in the King James Version of the Bible
* Tobias Whale, a comic book villain
* Dale "The Whale" Biederbeck, a character from Monk

### Films

* Whale (film), a 1970 Bulgarian comedy satirizing the defects of the Bulgarian economic and social structure
* The Whale (2011 film), a 2011 documentary film about a killer whale (orca) living in Nootka Sound, Canada
* The Whale (2013 film), a 2013 BBC television film about the Essex whaleship and its sinking in 1820
* The Whale (2022 film), a drama film directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Brendan Fraser and based on the 2012 play
* A Whale (film), a 2024 neo-noir fantasy thriller film

### Literature

* "The Whale" (poem), an Old English poem
* The Whale (play), a 2012 stage play by Samuel D. Hunter
* Moby-Dick or The Whale, an 1851 novel by Herman Melville
* Whale (novel), a 2004 novel by Cheon Myeong-kwan

### Music

* Whale (band), a Swedish alternative pop rock band
* "Whale" (song), by Catatonia, 1994
* "The Whale" (Tavener), a dramatic cantata by John Tavener
* "The Whale", an instrumental by Electric Light Orchestra from Out of the Blue
* "Flying Whales", a song by Gojira, from From Mars to Sirius
* "Whales", a song by Scale the Summit from The Collective

### Radio

* KAGT, previously branded as The Whale, an Abilene, Texas radio station
* WAAL, branded as 99.1 The Whale, a New York radio station
* WBHU, previously branded as 105.5 The Whale, a St. Augustine Beach, Florida radio station
* WDRC-FM, branded as 102.9 The Whale, a Hartford, Connecticut radio station

### Other uses in arts and entertainment

* "The Whale" (The Office), an episode of the US TV series The Office
* Whale (sculpture), an outdoor wooden sculpture in Cannon Beach, Oregon, US

## Military

* USS Whale, ships of the US Navy
* Douglas A-3 Skywarrior, a carrier-based aircraft nicknamed "The Whale"
* Operation Whale, two aborted World War II-era German intelligence plans
* Soviet submarine S-99, the only ship of the experimental Whale class submarine

## Sports

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

## Other uses

* Whale (computer virus), a malicious program
* Whale (ship), a sloop which disappeared in 1816
* A Whale (ship), a Liberian-flagged ore-oil carrier ship
* Whale (gambling) or high roller, a gambler who consistently wagers large amounts of money
* Naver Whale, a Web browser
* The Whale, a housing project by Danish West 8
* Waterfront Historic Area League (WHALE)