Greenland whalers and life on a Wadden Sea Island in the eighteenth century

• Published in: International Journal of Maritime History
• Main Author: Ax, Christina Folke
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publications 2015
• Subjects: Arctic; Greenland; Danish Island
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0843871415610100; https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0843871415610100; https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/0843871415610100

Focusing on the Danish island Rømø, this article explores how the local community was influenced by the fact that, from the late seventeenth until the early nineteenth century, most of the men migrated every year to the big European cities to work as captains or crew on whaling and sealing ships bou...