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  • Thumbnail for New Bedford Whaling Museum
    The New Bedford Whaling Museum is a museum in New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States that focuses on the history, science, art, and culture of the...
    17 KB (2,030 words) - 03:43, 16 September 2023
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    Whaling Museum The Nantucket Whaling Museum is a museum located in Nantucket, Massachusetts. It is run by the Nantucket Historical Association. The Whaling...
    7 KB (787 words) - 18:17, 6 August 2023
  • Whaling and Historical Museum is dedicated to the port town's past within the American whaling industry. It houses the largest collection of whaling equipment...
    4 KB (443 words) - 14:01, 18 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for The Whaling Museum & Education Center
    The Whaling Museum & Education Center, formerly known as The Whaling Museum, is a maritime museum located in Cold Spring Harbor, New York dedicated to...
    7 KB (766 words) - 04:37, 17 April 2024
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    Commercial whaling in the United States dates to the 17th century in New England. The industry peaked in 1846–1852, and New Bedford, Massachusetts, sent...
    48 KB (6,095 words) - 20:22, 2 June 2024
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    Whaling is the hunting of whales for their usable products such as meat and blubber, which can be turned into a type of oil that was important in the...
    75 KB (8,472 words) - 06:18, 23 May 2024
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    Japanese whaling, in terms of active hunting of whales, is estimated by the Japan Whaling Association to have begun around the 12th century. However,...
    162 KB (17,836 words) - 16:42, 21 May 2024
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    Villa for use as a museum. Bonner wrote: "If [the museum] causes [visitors] to think a little more deeply about the whaling industry, the management of natural...
    7 KB (588 words) - 15:46, 17 June 2024
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    New Bedford, Massachusetts (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from The American Cyclopaedia)
    generated the highest annual value of any fishing port in the United States. The city is also home to the New Bedford Whaling Museum and New Bedford Whaling National...
    139 KB (12,877 words) - 11:41, 6 June 2024
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    the history of whaling from prehistoric times up to the commencement of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) moratorium on commercial whaling in...
    88 KB (8,773 words) - 15:04, 12 June 2024
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    Scrimshaw (category Whaling in Australia)
    Museum in Kingston upon Hull, England The Kendall Whaling Museum, which is part of the New Bedford Whaling Museum in New Bedford, Massachusetts The Scott...
    14 KB (1,746 words) - 19:16, 23 March 2024
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    Sandefjord (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
    fleet in Norway. Sandefjord Museum is the only museum in Europe dedicated to whaling, and is home to Gokstad Mound where the 9th-century Gokstad Ship was...
    143 KB (12,334 words) - 18:41, 10 June 2024
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    weapon used in whaling to injure and kill the object of the hunt. As the name implies, it explodes once it has embedded itself into a whale. The conditions...
    5 KB (651 words) - 23:19, 4 March 2024
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    center, the New Bedford National Historic Landmark District, the New Bedford Whaling Museum, the Seamen's Bethel, the schooner Ernestina, and the Rotch–Jones–Duff...
    5 KB (310 words) - 01:23, 8 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Butler Point Whaling Museum
    Point Whaling Museum is located at Hihi, near Mangonui in New Zealand’s Doubtless Bay, a centre for whaling fleets in the 1820s–1850s. The museum comprises...
    2 KB (200 words) - 00:24, 12 April 2024
  • Mystic Pizza (category The Samuel Goldwyn Company films)
    opposites. Kat, the younger sister, is an aspiring astronomer with several jobs, including working at the planetarium of the Whaling Museum in the Mystic Seaport...
    15 KB (1,602 words) - 03:27, 14 April 2024
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    Vestfold (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
    Sandefjord Museum (the Whaling Museum), Europe's only museum dedicated to whaling. Southern Actor, only whale-catcher from the Modern Whaling Epoch still...
    96 KB (8,104 words) - 03:01, 13 May 2024
  • museum details Ulsan's history of whaling. Whaling was banned in South Korea in 1986, but whaling artifacts were kept and are now on display in the museum...
    2 KB (139 words) - 04:25, 27 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Grand Panorama of a Whaling Voyage 'Round the World
    The Grand Panorama of a Whaling Voyage 'Round the World is a maritime panoramic painting created by Benjamin Russell and Caleb B. Purrington in 1848....
    4 KB (343 words) - 23:50, 7 April 2024
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    museum located in Sandefjord, Norway. It is dedicated to the whaling industry and is the only specialized museum on the subject of whales and whaling...
    8 KB (753 words) - 14:12, 9 February 2024
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