Whaling

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

whaling • the practice of hunting and killing whales.

English

Whaling

Portuguese

Baleação

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

Connected with

• Whales
  

Place names related to whaling

Portugal

• Atouguia da Baleia
• Pedra da Baleia
• Praia da Baleia

References

Rijkelijkhuizen, M., 2009. Whales, Walruses, and Elephants: Artisans in Ivory, Baleen, and Other Skeletal Materials in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam. Int. J. Histor. Archaeol. 13, p.409–429. DOI 10.1007/s10761-009-0091-0