From Davis Strait to Bering Strait: The Arrival of the Commercial Whaling Fleet in North America's Western Arctic
. This paper, then, focuses primarily on the whaling industry as a whole and not centrally upon the arctic regions - because the impetus for the arrival of the whaling fleets at the gates of the American Arctic came directly from the economic centers of Europe and America, and only as the result of...
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ftunivcalgaryojs:oai:journalhosting.ucalgary.ca:article/65286 2023-05-15T14:19:16+02:00 From Davis Strait to Bering Strait: The Arrival of the Commercial Whaling Fleet in North America's Western Arctic Bockstoce, John 1984-01-01 application/pdf https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65286 eng eng The Arctic Institute of North America https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65286/49200 https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65286 ARCTIC; Vol. 37 No. 4 (1984): December: 321–616; 528-532 1923-1245 0004-0843 History Whaling Baffin Bay-Davis Strait Bering Strait Greenland Sea South Pacific Ocean info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion research-article 1984 ftunivcalgaryojs 2022-03-22T21:22:25Z . This paper, then, focuses primarily on the whaling industry as a whole and not centrally upon the arctic regions - because the impetus for the arrival of the whaling fleets at the gates of the American Arctic came directly from the economic centers of Europe and America, and only as the result of a concatenation of political and economic events were the fleets drawn to the north. My discussion will not deal specifically with the history of either the Davis Strait or the Bering Strait whale fishery. It will, rather, analyze the series of events between their two discoveries that led the whaleships to Bering Strait: for although whale fisheries in most parts of the world have been capably studied, far less attention has been paid to the causes which led the fleets to abandon one fishery and begin the exploitation of another. . Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Baffin Bay Baffin Bay Baffin Bering Strait Davis Strait Greenland Greenland Sea University of Calgary Journal Hosting Arctic Baffin Bay Bering Strait Greenland Pacific ARCTIC 37 4 |
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. This paper, then, focuses primarily on the whaling industry as a whole and not centrally upon the arctic regions - because the impetus for the arrival of the whaling fleets at the gates of the American Arctic came directly from the economic centers of Europe and America, and only as the result of a concatenation of political and economic events were the fleets drawn to the north. My discussion will not deal specifically with the history of either the Davis Strait or the Bering Strait whale fishery. It will, rather, analyze the series of events between their two discoveries that led the whaleships to Bering Strait: for although whale fisheries in most parts of the world have been capably studied, far less attention has been paid to the causes which led the fleets to abandon one fishery and begin the exploitation of another. . |
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From Davis Strait to Bering Strait: The Arrival of the Commercial Whaling Fleet in North America's Western Arctic |
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