A reminder of this exploitation was found in 2007, when a bowhead whale in Alaska was found to have fragments of a harpoon ...

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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 ...

A free award-winning movie called “One with the Whale” will be showing at 6 p.m. on Wednesday at the Great Lakes Maritime ...

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A mystery beginning in the South Atlantic and ending in South Kensington has finally been solved. The century-long story of ...

Here in the UK most people are pretty oblivious to the start of the whaling season. However down in the Southern Ocean anti-whaling protestors and whaling ships are engaged in a vicious battle that ...

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 ...

A reminder of this exploitation was found in 2007, when a bowhead whale in Alaska was found to have fragments of a harpoon lodged in its body. This relic of Massachusetts-based whalers ...