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Rorquals (/ˈrɔːrkwəlz/) are the
largest group of
baleen whales,
comprising the
family Balaenopteridae,
which contains ten
extant species in
three genera...
- as the
common name in 1874. Blue
whales were
referred to as "Sibbald's
rorqual",
after Robert Sibbald, who
first described the species.
Herman Melville...
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Mount Rorqual (65°39′S 62°20′W / 65.650°S 62.333°W / -65.650; -62.333) is a peak
between Starbuck and
Stubb Glaciers in
southeastern Aristotle Mountains...
- HMS
Rorqual has been the name of two
Royal Navy submarines. A
rorqual is a type of whale: HMS
Rorqual (N74), a Grampus-class
submarine launched in 1936...
- HMS
Rorqual (N74) was a
British mine-laying submarine, one of the six
ships of the
Grampus class of the
Royal Navy. She was
built by
Vickers Armstrong...
- whale (Balaenoptera physalus), also
known as the finback whale or common
rorqual, is a
species of baleen
whale and the second-longest
cetacean after the blue...
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comprises the
families Balaenidae (right and
bowhead whales),
Balaenopteridae (
rorquals),
Eschrichtiidae (the gray whale) and
Cetotheriidae (the
pygmy right whale)...
- The
minke whale (/ˈmɪnki/), or
lesser rorqual, is a
species complex of
baleen whale. The two
species of
minke whale are the
common (or northern) minke...
- HMS
Rorqual (S02) was a Porpoise-class
submarine launched in 1956. She was
built by the
Vickers shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness, ****bria, England. The boat...
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harpoon gun
mounted at its bow and was fast
enough to
chase and
catch rorquals such as the fin whale. At first,
whale catchers either brought the whales...
