SH09 SURGEONS ON WHALING SHIPS IN THE SOUTH SEAS, 1800–1850

• Published in: ANZ Journal of Surgery
• Main Author: Watters, D. A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2009
• Subjects: Coulter; Pacific; Sperm whale
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1445-2197.2009.04931_9.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1445-2197.2009.04931_9.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1445-2197.2009.04931_9.x

1814 saw the end of a monopoly of trading privileges for the East India Company in the Pacific Ocean. This brought British whaling ships into the Pacific spurred by rising demand for sperm whale oil. The 1830's were boom years for whaling but the price fell due to a reduction in duty on foreign...