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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...
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although it may be
eaten as muktuk.
English whalemen referred to the
process as flensing,
while American whalemen called it cutting-in or flinching. In Spitsbergen...
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Harpoons used in the
whale fishery, 1887,
including new
design from
Provincetown whalemen...
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Wilson Center website Retrieved 10
January 2022.
Willian John
Dakin (1938),
Whalemen Adventures, Sydney,
Angus & Robertson, p.127. "The
Victoria Advocate –...
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another at sea. The term was
first used to
describe a
school of whales, and
whalemen may have
taken its
meaning from that source.
Herman Melville titles Chapter...
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supplied rendered fat,
partly for
consumption in Europe. In
early America,
whalemen may have
eaten blubber after rendering,
which they
termed "cracklings"...
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fishery ended in the late 1890s. In the 1850s, the Euro–American
whalemen began a
serious attempt at
catching rorquals such as the blue
whale and...
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probably caught by
American and
European whalemen in the Sea of
Okhotsk from the 1840s to the
early 20th century.
Whalemen caught 44 with nets in ****an during...
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Pequod sails near the ‘distant Crozetts’, ’a good
cruising ground for
Right Whalemen’ in
Chapter 52, ‘The Albatross’. See also
chapter 58, ’Brit’.
Biggles Cuts...
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important Quaker family name on Nantucket, and
there were
dozens of
actual whalemen of this
period named Starbuck, as
evidenced by the name of
Starbuck Island...