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2. 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 ...

3. Lahaina Historic District - Wikipedia

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   Lahaina eclipsed Oahu as a preferred whaling port between 1840 and 1855, because of its better deep-water anchorage. When Kamehameha III ascended to the Hawaiian throne in 1825, he made Lahaina his capital, preferring it to the busier Honolulu. The town declined in economic importance in the 1860s, as the whaling industry waned. [4]

4. 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 ...

5. 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 ...

6. The islands that went from whale hunting to whale watching - AOL

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   The transition away from whaling gave birth to new industries and practices – with the impetus coming from outside. In 1990, French national Serge Viallele set up the first whale watching ...

7. Japan is determined to keep hunting whales. And now it has a ...

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   For decades, Japan has justified whaling under the guise of “scientific research.” In 2018, it tried one last time to persuade the IWC to allow it to resume commercial whaling – and failed.

8. 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.

9. 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 ...