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
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

Place names related to whaling

Portugal


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