Iceberg is the name of an all-white, mature male orca (killer whale) that was filmed and photographed in 2010 off the north-east coast of Russia.
[1][2] Researchers attached to the Far East Russia Orca Project (FEROP), co-founded and co-directed by Alexander M. Burdin and Erich Hoyt, first spotted the orca when his six-foot (two-metre) dorsal fin broke the surface near the Commander Islands in the Bering Sea in August 2010.
He was living in a pod with 12 other orcas, and given the size of his dorsal fin was thought to be at least 16 years old.
[1][2] Scientists from FEROP speculated that he may have been the albino whale spotted off the coast of Alaska in 2000 and 2008.
[1][2] The white coloration, more common in the Russian north Pacific than among Antarctic whales, may be a sign of dangerous inbreeding.