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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Gary Lamont (category Alumni of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland)
Gary Lamont is a Scottish actor, best known for his role as hairdresser Robbie Fraser in the soap opera River City, a role which he played from 2009 to...
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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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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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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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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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Wellerman (category Whaling in New Zealand)
files? 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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Stromness, South Georgia (category Whaling stations of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)
Stromness is an abandoned whaling station on the northern coast of South Georgia Island in the South Atlantic. It was the destination of Sir Ernest Shackleton's...
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Bun Abhainn Eadarra (category Villages in Harris, Outer Hebrides)
20th century shore-based whaling station in the UK, and it was designated as an ancient scheduled monument by Historic Scotland in 1992. "B887". Sabre. Retrieved...
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