SPECIES
Great white shark
Carcharodon carcharias
The great white shark ranges across coastal and offshore waters of many temperate seas.
A great white shark is at home in waters far beyond any single coastline. Its movements make sense only when records are connected to time and place.
What does a great white shark eat?
fish and marine animals
Where does a great white shark live?
temperate seas worldwide
A predator of coastal seas
Great white sharks use continental and island shelf waters, though records also show them far offshore.
Far beyond a single beach
Great white sharks occur in many temperate coastal and offshore waters around the world.
The limits of sightings
Observation hotspots cannot be interpreted as global shark abundance or real-time positions.
Sources
Records of where it has been seen come live from GBIF; observed interactions from GloBI. Draft — not yet reviewed by a person.