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 ...

Local historians and scientists are extracting and analyzing weather observations made by mariners in the logbooks of whaling ships from the 18th and ... path in the 21st century regarding climate ...

Smith assembled a team of scientists and historians to determine the effect that 19th century American offshore whaling had on whales. In 2010, the team finished up a 10-year project of assembling ...

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 ...

Norway has hunted whales in its own waters for centuries, but key technological advances, such as the exploding harpoon cannon, developed by its whalers in the 19 th century, enabled the expansion of ...

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, ...

RCC Perspectives, No. 5, NEW HISTORIES OF PACIFIC WHALING (2019), pp. 91-98 (10 pages) Adam Paterson and Chris Wilson consider Ngarrindjeri contributions to Southern Australia's nineteenth-century ...