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

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, ...