Whaling

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Painting by Abraham Storck (1645-1710): Whaling in the polar sea.

The Greenland Whale Fishery. Thomas Boreman, 1774. A description of three hundred animals, viz. beasts, birds, fishes, serpents, and insects. London, printed for J. and F. Rivington, Hawes, Clarke and Collins, T. Caslon, S. Crowdeer, B. Law, F. Newbery, G. Robinson and H. Baldwin. https://jcb.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet/s/9yni49

whaling • the practice of hunting and killing whales.

English

Whaling

Portuguese

Baleação; Caça à baleia; Pesca da baleia (arch.)

Norwegian

Hvalfangst (bm); Kvalfangst (nn); Hvalfart (bm); Kvalfart (nn)

Dutch

Walvisvaart; Walvisjacht

German

Walfang

French

Pêche à la baleine

Spanish

Caza de ballenas

Italian

Caccia alla balena

Greek

Creole

Kasa a baleia (CV); Pega balya (STP)

Associated with

• Whales
  

Place names related to whaling

Portugal

• Atouguia da Baleia
  

References

• Vieira, N., C. Brito, A. C. Garcia, H. da Luz, H. Noronha & D. Pereira (2020). The Whale in the Cape Verde Islands: Seascapes as a Cultural Construction from the Viewpoint of History, Literature, Local Art and Heritage. Humanities 9 (90): 17 p. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/h9030090
• Vieira, N., P. Hayes & A. Matthews (2019). Facing Changes, Changing Targets: Sperm Whale Hunting in Late Eighteenth-Century Brazil. Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia (Autumn 2019), n. 44, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/arcadia/facing-changes-changing-targets-sperm-whale-hunting-late-eighteenth-century-brazil
• Brito, C. & A. Sousa (2011). The Environmental History of Cetaceans in Portugal: Ten Centuries of Whale and Dolphin Records. PLoS ONE 6(9): e23951. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023951 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0023951
• Brito, C. & V. Jordão (2014). A baleación medieval e moderna en Portugal: Que nos din as fontes históricas? Eubalaena nº 14: 28-40.
• Cloquier, C. (2018). L'exploitation des animaux marins de la côte picarde du XIIe au XVIe siècle, in Jacquemard, C., B. Gauvin, M.-A. Lucas-Avenel, B. Clavel & T. Buqet (éds), Animaux aquatiques et monstres des mers septentrionales (imaginer, connaître, exploiter, de l’Antiquité à 1600). Anthropozoologica 53 (13): 149-157. https://doi.org/10.5252/anthropozoologica2018v53a13
• https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/anthropozoologica/53/13