The whaling fishery, from the 1800’s to the end of the 1900s ... For all species and all regions, there was just no sense in which the industry was able to look at further ahead than a season ...

Fastening harpoon points, Courtesy: Library of Congress Shore whaling is taken up at Southampton, Long Island. The fledgling industry is manned by Native Americans, who are paid a percentage based ...

Though whale goods were used by people in both temperate and cold climates across the globe in prehistoric eras, whaling was ...

“Today we celebrate the discovery of a lost ship that will help us better understand the rich story of how people of color succeeded as captains and crew members in the nascent American whaling ...

Today it teems with wildlife, but South Georgia's human history is marked by decades of industrial-scale whaling ... once at the centre of the whaling industry". Mr Visocchi described it as ...