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- *The International Whaling Commission prohibits commercial whaling south of 40 degrees south (south of 60 degrees south between 50 degrees and ...9 KB (1,422 words) - 15:39, 4 February 2023
- such success that every major Atlantic whaling expedition would stop in ... In 1979, Portugal outlawed whaling, even though the annual Azorean ...17 KB (2,435 words) - 05:18, 26 August 2023
- and shipbuilding. After working on another whaling ship and in the California ... the rich fishing waters off Japan. After whaling in the South Seas, Franklin ...17 KB (2,559 words) - 02:42, 11 March 2023
- ===Whaling=== [[Image:Killed pilot wales in hvalba, faroe islands.JPG ... Whaling in the Faeroe Islands has been practiced since at least the ...28 KB (4,130 words) - 00:27, 25 March 2024
- left his native Massachusetts and joined a whaling expedition to the South ... story of Captain Ahab, commander of the whaling ship the Pequod, and his ...26 KB (4,121 words) - 10:03, 22 January 2024
- In the nineteenth century European and U.S. whaling ships regularly prowled the waters off Southampton Island in the search for bowhead whales ...19 KB (2,919 words) - 12:16, 4 February 2023
- huddle of wooden huts and tents. The whaling industry was established, ships were visiting Sydney to trade, and convicts whose sentences had ...18 KB (2,828 words) - 17:36, 16 August 2023
- Frances and the Queen Anne, with fishing and whaling gear. ... colony that would prosper through fishing, whaling, trapping, and harvesting ...17 KB (2,676 words) - 07:51, 3 August 2022
- Owing to extensive whaling, sperm whale size has decreased dramatically ... meters (85 feet) long attacked a Nantucket whaling ship Essex. Only 8 out of ...27 KB (4,253 words) - 15:20, 27 April 2023
- Hudson the "grandfather of the English whaling industry." [http://www.ianchadwick.com/hudson/hudson_01.htm Henry Hudson's First ...9 KB (1,487 words) - 15:22, 25 January 2023
- and gradually established farming and whaling industries. Although some families decided to return to Pitcairn in 1858 and 1863, the island ...20 KB (2,910 words) - 02:42, 16 November 2022
- because the removal of whales by the intensive whaling of the twentieth century left a surplus of krill. Currently, most species of fur seals ...12 KB (1,705 words) - 07:37, 23 January 2023
- and Asia in the nineteenth century. The arrival of whaling ships and missionaries accelerated settlement of the port city. Kamehameha III moved his capital ...11 KB (1,697 words) - 19:38, 17 November 2022
- Inuit were forced to abandon hunting and whaling sites in the high Arctic ... the Labrador coast and had established whaling stations on land, such as ...53 KB (8,160 words) - 18:55, 7 February 2023
- marine mammals (seals and whales, although "whaling" is the term usually used instead of fishing). Among common mollusks that are the target ...13 KB (1,881 words) - 17:27, 28 March 2024
- * Regular morning class at approximately 6:30 A.M.Frank Whaling, Encyclopedia ... *Whaling, Frank. Understanding the Brahma Kumaris. Dunedin Press ltd ...28 KB (3,991 words) - 22:34, 20 November 2023
- subsistence hunting and fishing, including whaling. The capture of a whale ... influenza brought by American and European whaling crews, most of these moved ...45 KB (6,702 words) - 21:30, 20 March 2024
- of the great era of New England whaling industry in the mid-nineteenth century. In 1867, the United States government purchased from Russia all ...15 KB (2,176 words) - 11:00, 28 September 2023
- Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling signed, but not ratified: Climate Change Kyoto Protocol ==Notes== ==References== ...14 KB (2,131 words) - 06:52, 18 April 2024
- walrus ivory and whale bone. Gambell holds a whaling festival each spring when a whale is taken. Savoonga is hailed as the “Walrus Capital of the ...16 KB (2,304 words) - 15:46, 27 April 2023
