By Daniel Mills The first pictures of one of the world's rarest sea creatures, Migaloo the white humpback whale, have been taken of the magnificent animal beginning his yearly migration north along Australia's eastern seaboard. The all-white Migaloo who shares his distinguishable albino appearance with just one other white whale in the world, a Norwegian, was sighted for the first time this year by a member of the public just off the coast of Green Cape in southern NSW on Tuesday. He was then spotted several times again on Thursday, with camera crews getting magnificent views of the 35-year-old off the coast of Sydney. He was snapped and filmed breaching in waters off Botany Bay, Cronulla and Bondi as Australia's much-loved white whale continued his three-month migratory trip from Antarctica to North Queensland and back.
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Amazing pictures of rare white whale swimming north off coast of Sydney
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Migaloo, 35, photographed with 'competition pod' at Cronulla on Thursday
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The much-loved whale has returned every year since first sighting in 1991
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Migaloo is protected by Federal Law which prevents him being approached
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Migration of humpback whales starts in Antarctica and finishes in North Queensland before returning south in September
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