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Novels about British whaling in polar regions include, W.H.G. Kingston, Peter the whaler, his early life and adventures in the Arctic regions (1851); R.M. Ballantyne, The world of ice, or, the whaling cruise of the Dolphin, and the adventures of her crew in the Arctic regions (1859); Frank Bullen, The Bitter South (1909); Hammond Innes, The ...
American whaling's origins were in New York and New England, including Cape Cod, Massachusetts and nearby cities. Whale oil was in demand chiefly for lamps. Whale oil was in demand chiefly for lamps. By the 18th century whaling in Nantucket had become a highly lucrative deep-sea industry, with voyages extending for years at a time and traveling ...
Whaling is the hunting of whales for their usable products such as meat and blubber, which can be turned into a type of oil that was important in the Industrial Revolution. Whaling was practiced as an organized industry as early as 875 AD. By the 16th century, it had become the principal industry in the Basque coastal regions of Spain and ...
Samuel Enderby & Sons was a whaling and sealing company based in London, England, founded circa 1775 by Samuel Enderby (1717–1797). [1] The company was significant in the history of whaling in the United Kingdom, not least for encouraging their captains to combine exploration with their business activities, and sponsored several of the earliest expeditions to the subantarctic, Southern Ocean ...
Commercial whaling in the United States dates to the 17th century in New England. The industry peaked in 1846–1852, and New Bedford, Massachusetts, sent out its last whaler, the John R. Mantra, in 1927. The whaling industry was engaged with the production of three different raw materials: whale oil, spermaceti oil, and whalebone. Whale oil ...
In the history of whaling, humans are believed to have begun whaling in Korea at least 6000 BC. [19] The oldest known method of catching whales is to simply drive them ashore by placing a number of small boats between the whale and the open sea and attempting to frighten them with noise, activity, and perhaps small, non-lethal weapons such as ...
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Whaling stations of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (7 P) Pages in category "Whaling in the United Kingdom" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.