whaling

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Reports of sperm whales using their heads to strike objects date back to open-boat whaling in the 19th century.

From Science Daily • Mar. 23, 2026

The Browns had a hand in everything from ironmaking and rum distilling to whaling and the slave trade.

From Barron's • Jan. 28, 2026

Shetlander Helen Balfour is the assistant curator at the South Georgia Museum in Grytviken, one of the island's former whaling stations.

From BBC • Dec. 31, 2025

In fact, the history of whaling on its own disproves the central point of “The Killing Age,” that guns were a sine qua non for the making of the modern world.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

They couldn’t be sure what bay they were looking at, however, and to be sure of hitting the whaling stations, they kept to the east.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong