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Worldwide distribution of wintering areas (black polygons) for (a) 10 Northern (A–F) and (b) 14 Southern (G–T) Hemisphere humpback whale populations (see electronic supplementary material for sources), overlaid on climatological SST for February and August, respectively. Letter codes bear no relationship to Southern Hemisphere stock designations by the IWC.
