British Antarctic Survey Arctic Whaling Database

• Main Authors: Wilkinson, Jeremy, Veyssiere, Gaelle, Hughes, Nick, Ayre, Matthew, Murray, Maribeth, Headland, Robert, Charles, Ryan
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2022
• Subjects: Arctic; Whaling; Greenland; Antarc*; Antarctic; Beluga; Beluga*; British Antarctic Survey; Davis Strait; Greenland Sea; narwhal*; walrus*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7341395

The British Antarctic Survey Arctic Whaling Database (BAS-AWD) has at present, has over 11,000 individual records of British whaling voyages to the Greenland Sea and the Davis Strait between 1725 and 1913. Where practical the data analysis has endeavoured to be comprehensive, and as a result the records contain information on the following categories: name and rig of the ship, its classification (condition of hull and rigging), its tonnage, its draft, the port and year the ship was built, its home port, its owner, name of the master, whaling grounds worked, the date of sailing and return, number of bowhead whales, bottlenose whales, narwhals, beluga whales, seals, walrus, and polar bears caught, as well as the weight of whalebone taken, the volume of whale oil and blubber and the volume of seal oil and blubber produced. However, the record-keeping is incomplete as a result not all information within these categories is available for each voyage.