In the mid-19th century the one flue harpoon was replaced by the toggling harpoon, which was an iron version of the ancient design used in the Arctic by the native whale hunters there. The toggling ...

romantic visions which agitated him, it was like the sharp stroke of the harpoon, which awakens the whale from torpidity into violent action. 1862 July ...

In the later 19th century, guns with explosive charges shooting the harpoons took the place of hand tools for catching and killing whales. They were much safer, for they could be shot at a whale from ...

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Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. In this photo made by a CCAMLR observer, fishermen aboard the Chilean krill trawler Antarctic Endeavour ...

Lawrence,” a press release explains. “When a shy Alaska Native teen becomes the youngest person ever to harpoon a whale for his village, his family is blindsided by thousands of keyboard ...