for whaling in Scotland is from Bronze Age settlements where whalebones were used for constructing and decorating dwelling places. Commercial whaling started...
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Commercial whaling in Britain began late in the 16th century and continued after the 1801 formation of the United Kingdom and intermittently until the...
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Christian Salvesen (category Whaling in Scotland)
was a Scottish whaling, transport and logistics company with a long and varied history, employing 13,000 staff and operating in seven countries in western...
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whaling from prehistoric times up to the commencement of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) moratorium on commercial whaling in 1986. Whaling...
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Whaling in Norway involves hunting of minke whales for use as animal and human food in Norway and for export to Japan. Whale hunting has been a part of...
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The Famous Tay Whale (category Whaling in Scotland)
humpback whale hunted and killed in 1883 in the Firth of Tay near Dundee, Scotland, then the country's main whaling port. The doggerel verse is famous...
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Tay Whale (category Whaling in Scotland)
the events. In December 1883, a humpback whale appeared in the Firth of Tay off the shore of Dundee, at that time Scotland's major whaling port, and attracted...
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The Dundee Whaling Expedition (1892–1893) was a commercial voyage from Scotland to Antarctica. Whaling in the Arctic was in decline from overfishing. The...
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Whaling in Australian waters began in 1791 when five of the 11 ships in the Third Fleet landed their passengers and freight at Sydney Cove and then left...
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Troaking (category Whaling in Scotland)
whalers from ports in Scotland. From the signing of the Treaty of Kiel in 1814 until the occupation of Denmark by Nazi Germany in 1940, Greenland was...
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John Sen Inches Thomson (category Whaling in Scotland)
under "Thomson Brothers" as ship chandlers and managed sealing and whaling ships in the waters surrounding Australia and New Zealand. They were part owners...
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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...
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Whaling in Canada encompasses both aboriginal and commercial whaling, and has existed on all three Canadian oceans, Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic. The...
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Ronas Voe (category Whaling in Scotland)
Scotland's Aquaculture. 4 October 2019. Retrieved 12 October 2019. "HEARD Hillswick Eshaness Area Regeneration and Development - Our History, Whaling"...
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Austin Swift (category American people of Scottish descent)
In 2019, he starred in the indie movie Braking for Whales, originally titled Whaling, written by Tammin Sursok and her husband Sean McEwen, and in the...
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Whaling in Argentina was a major industry on both the South Pacific and South Atlantic coasts, and around the Falkland Islands. The primary whalers were...
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Peterhead (redirect from Peterhead, Scotland)
Peterhead Peterhead power station Scotland-Norway interconnector Whaling in Scotland "na h-Alba ~ Gaelic Place-names of Scotland". Archived from the original...
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Minke whale (section Whaling)
International Whaling Commission. The 2004 estimate yielded 515,000 individuals for the Antarctic minke stock. Whaling was mentioned in Norwegian written...
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Sinking of the Oscar (category Whaling in Scotland)
The Oscar was a whaling ship that was wrecked near Aberdeen, Scotland, on 1 April 1813. It was so close to the shore that families helplessly watched...
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Whale oil (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
from extinction. In the 21st century, with most countries having banned whaling, the sale and use of whale oil has practically ceased. Whale oil was obtained...
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Scottish Parliament and is administered and enforced by the Marine Directorate. Economy of Scotland North Sea oil Scottish Fisheries Museum Whaling in...
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Kekerten Island (category Whaling in Scotland)
Ugpitimik Island are in the vicinity. Kekerten Territorial Park is located on the island. Scottish whalers had been fishing in the Cumberland Sound since...
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History of Dundee (category History of Scotland by council area)
Brechin Diocese of the Scottish Episcopal Church and the NHS Tayside Archive. Timeline of Dundee history Whaling in Scotland Taylor (1898); Forsyth (1997)...
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Whale meat (section Anti-whaling efforts)
compared to farmed livestock. Commercial whaling, which has faced opposition for decades, continues today in very few countries (mainly Iceland, Japan...
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Whale conservation (redirect from Whaling controversy)
the conservation of whales. Prior to the setting up of the IWC in 1946, unregulated whaling had depleted a number of whale populations to a significant extent...
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Wellerman (category Whaling in New Zealand)
file? See media help. The history of whaling in New Zealand stretches from the late eighteenth century to 1965. In 1831, the British-born Weller brothers...
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The North Water (TV series) (category Whaling)
services in both respective languages. The series is set in the year 1859, the final years of the whale oil trade, on a whaling expedition in the Arctic...
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William Glass (category People from Kelso, Scottish Borders)
Tristan da Cunha. William Glass was born William Glasgow in Kelso, Scotland, in the Scottish Borders region, on 11 May 1786, to David and Janet Glasgow...
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Sperm whale (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from July 2022)
fixative in perfumes, among other uses. Beachcombers look out for ambergris as flotsam. Sperm whaling was a major industry in the 19th century, depicted in the...
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Common minke whale (category Mammals described in 1804)
of the primary targets of the whaling industry. There is a dwarf form in the Southern Hemisphere. This species is known in the fossil record from the Pliocene...
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