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

Associated with

• Whales
  

Place names related to whaling

Portugal

• Atouguia da Baleia
• Pedra da Baleia
• Praia 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