Sentences with phrase «century whalers»

THE RAGE OF THE SPERM WHALE: Not a whale to go down without a fight, the sperm whale earned a ferocious reputation among 19th century whalers.

The blue whale was too swift and powerful for the 19th century whalers to hunt, but with the arrival of harpoon cannons, they became a much sought after species for their large amounts of blubber.

Eubalaena glacialis, the North Atlantic right whale — so - called by 18th century whalers because it was easy to kill and rich in valuable blubber — is one of three right whale species.

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The species had not been seen outside the Pacific Ocean since the 18th century, when whalers are thought to have harpooned the last Atlantic gray whale.

European whalers hunted the whale off the coast of New Zealand in the last century, apparently reducing the population from 60 000 to around 3000.

Humans, primarily buccaneers and whalers, exploited them as a food source during the 18th and 19th centuries.

At Champion Islet, snorkel among sea lions; then visit Post Office Bay, founded by whalers in the 18th century.

In the early 19th century, whalers settled along the banks of the Moyne River — revelling in its safe anchorage and consequently hunting the Southern Right Whale to the point of extinction.

I suggest Dyson to check out the history of Bowhead whalers (17th to 20th centuries), never going from Alaska to Greenland chasing their prey.

The archipelago of Spitsbergen was the favored destination of whalers already in the seventeenth century.

Whalers» logbooks dating from as early as the early 20th century provide anecdotal evidence.

Caught in only modest quantities for centuries, the minke whale was largely ignored by commercial whalers until the late 1960's, when the great baleen whales were all but wiped out.

Consider a case study of substitution offered by some of the Breakthrough Institute scholars who signed the Ecomodernist Manifesto: the replacement of whale oil by fuels such as kerosene, which, they argue, helped spare many species of whales from extinction at the harpoons of the whalers in the nineteenth century.