The whaling fishery, from the 1800’s to the end of the 1900s, was totally unsustainable almost anywhere, and even the regulations in the 20th century under the International Whaling Commission ...

Experience the longest painting in North America at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum. The Grand Panorama of a Whaling Voyage ...

While saving these species from extinction provides hope for the future, Dr Sophia Nicolov, AHRC Career Fellow and ...

Thirdly, industrial whaling in the twentieth century. Whaling was an imperial industry, contributing to the expansion of the empire and consolidation of its presence. Many Cetacea specimens held by ...

Hunted nearly to extinction during 20th century whaling, the Antarctic blue whale, the world's largest animal, went from a population size of roughly 200,000 to little more than 300. The most ...

Following a voyage of 16 days they arrived at South Georgia, also in Antarctica. Determined to reach a whaling station at Stromness, Shackleton and crew set across the frozen island on foot.

Though little is widely known about whaling, aside from Herman Melville’s 1851 classic "Moby Dick," it was America’s first global industry, spanning prerevolutionary times through the start of the ...

Most remaining whaling nations had given up in good faith by the time the ban came into effect in 1986, and the moratorium is widely considered one of the 20th century’s leading conservation victories ...