XXXIII.—The Right Whale of the North Atlantic, Balæna biscayensis : its Skeleton described and compared with that of the Greenland Right Whale, Balæna mysticetus .

• Published in: Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
• Main Author: Turner, Wm.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1913
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; General Environmental Science; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Greenland; North Cape; baleen whales; Iceland; Newfoundland; North Atlantic; Spitzbergen
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0080456800013041; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0080456800013041

From the thirteenth to the seventeenth century a successful whale fishery was prosecuted in the Bay of Biscay and in the North Atlantic by seamen from the Basque ports of France and the north of Spain. So daring was their enterprise that they pursued their avocation northward to Iceland and even wes...