Finding the mighty whales : eighteenth century Nantucket whaling and the development of environmental knowledge

• Main Author: Adams, Nathan Tristin
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of British Columbia 2010
• Subjects: Nantucket; Pacific; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28004

When Nantucket whalemen moved from a shore based fishery to one prosecuted on the high seas, they had to devise a system to locate whale populations. To do this, the whalemen systematically recorded their observations of the ocean and whales and developed a knowledge of the environment. This knowled...