In 2023, archaeologists from the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research embarked on a mission to explore the ...

The 17th- and 18th-century whalers’ graves on Svalbard, some of the Arctic’s unique and fragile archaeological sites, are under severe threat from climate change. Once preserved by permafrost and cold ...

I bought it the first time I went down to South Georgia — to work as an electrician for Christian Salvesen, Britain's biggest whaling company. I was employed first at Leith Harbour on South ...

Commercial whaling (distinguished from ASW by its participants, purpose, scale, and techniques) began in the 11 th century with the Basque inhabitants of the French and Spanish coastlines of the Bay ...

Nancy Shoemaker considers the four main products harvested in the nineteenth-century Pacific sperm whale trade ... and Profits in American Whaling, 1816–1906. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, ...

The craft began in the mid 18th century and lasted until a ban on commercial whaling. Comments are closed for this object What's this? Most of the content on A History of the World is created by ...