The Salvensen’s family Leith Harbour when the boom in whaling On September 13th 1909, 100 years ago, the “SS Starlight” arrived at South Georgia with men and materials to erect a shore ...
He will remain at sea for more than three years. During a "gam" with the whaling vessel Lima in the South Pacific, Melville meets William Henry Chase, son of Owen Chase, who presents him with a ...
The sweeping tariffs announced by US President Donald Trump on Wednesday target not only economic superpowers but also ...
They set sail again for the South American coast and caught their first sperm whale in the waters near Brazil. This region was largely fished out, so they headed to the Pacific in search of better ...
The Honolulu Polynesian of Dec. 6, gives a complete report of last year's whaling operations so far was it could be ascertained at that great whaleman's head-quarters. View Full Article in ...
Japan harpooned hundreds of whales across the Pacific every year on the pretext of studying their migration routes and to obtain data on whale numbers, their health and breeding patterns.
This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Nancy Shoemaker considers the four main products harvested in the nineteenth-century Pacific sperm whale trade: oil, spermaceti, ambergris ...
New research has highlighted an individual humpback whale that has traveled one of the longest migration routes ever seen ... off the Gulf of Tribugá on the Pacific coast of Colombia, as part ...