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2. Kipahulu, Hawaii - Wikipedia

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   With the advent of the whaling industry on the island in the 1880s Kīpahulu's population started to decline as people moved to main whaling ports such as Lahaina. In the early 1900s, one of the regular ports of call for the Inter-Island Steam Navigation Company was Kīpahulu. Steamships provided passenger service around Maui and between the ...

3. International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling

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   It governs the commercial, scientific, and aboriginal subsistence whaling practices of 88 member states. [2] The convention is a successor to the 1931 Geneva Convention for Regulation of Whaling and the 1937 International Agreement for the Regulation of Whaling, established in response to the overexploitation of whales in the post-World War I ...

4. Carthaginian (ship) - Wikipedia

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   Carthaginian was a three-masted barque outfitted as a whaler that served both as a movie prop and a museum ship in Hawaii.Laid down and launched in Denmark in 1921 as the three-masted schooner Wandia, she was converted in 1964–1965 into a typical square-rigged 19th-century whaler for the filming of the 1966 movie Hawaii.

5. History of whaling - Wikipedia

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   Scandinavia's whaling industry invented many new techniques in the 19th century, with most inventions occurring in Norway. Jacob Nicolai Walsøe was probably the first person to suggest mounting a harpoon gun in the bows of a steamship, while Arent Christian Dahl experimented with an explosive harpoon in Varanger Fjord (1857–1860).

6. Whale conservation - Wikipedia

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   The whale watching industry and anti-whaling advocates argue that whaling catches "friendly" whales that are curious about boats, as these whales are the easiest to catch. This analysis claims that once the economic benefits of hotels, restaurants and other tourist amenities are considered, hunting whales is a net economic loss.

7. Whaling in the United States - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

8. How whaling ventures in the 1800s shaped venture capital as ...

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   New Englanders especially became known for their innovative ship designs, robust talent networks, and appetite for remarkable risk: “By around 1850, almost 75 percent of the nine hundred whaling ...

9. Whaling - Wikipedia

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   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 ...