Whaling

whaling • the practice of hunting and killing whales

English
Whaling

Portuguese
Baleação; Caça à baleia; Pesca da baleia (arch.)

Norwegian
Hvalfangst (bokmål); Kvalfangst (nynorsk); Hvalfart (bokmål); Kvalfart (nynorsk)

Dutch
Walvisvaart; Walvisjacht

German
Walfang

French
Pêche à la baleine

Spanish
Caza de ballenas

Italian
Caccia alla balena

Creole
Kasa a baleia (Creole of Cape Verde, Island of Santiago); Pega balya (Creole of São Tome and Príncipe (Santome, Forro, Fôlo))

Painting by Abraham Storck (1645-1710): Whaling in the polar sea.

The Greenland Whale Fishery. Thomas Boreman, 1774. *A description of three hundred animals, viz. beasts, birds, fishes, serpents, and insects*. London, printed for J. and F. Rivington, Hawes, Clarke and Collins, T. Caslon, S. Crowdeer, B. Law, F. Newbery, G. Robinson and H. Baldwin.
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Associated with

Whales

Place names related to whaling

Atouguia da Baleia (Portugal)
Baleeira (Portugal)
Kval- (Norway)
Smeerenburg (Spitsbergen, Norway)

Historical sources mentioning whaling

De seldsaame en noit gehoorde wal-vis-vangst

References

Vieira, N., C. Brito, A. C. Garcia, H. da Luz, H. Noronha & D. Pereira (2020). The Whale in the Cape Verde Islands: Seascapes as a Cultural Construction from the Viewpoint of History, Literature, Local Art and Heritage. Humanities 9 (90): 17 p. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/h9030090
Vieira, N., P. Hayes & A. Matthews (2019). Facing Changes, Changing Targets: Sperm Whale Hunting in Late Eighteenth-Century Brazil. Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia (Autumn 2019), n. 44, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/arcadia/facing-changes-changing-targets-sperm-whale-hunting-late-eighteenth-century-brazil
Brito, C. & A. Sousa (2011). The Environmental History of Cetaceans in Portugal: Ten Centuries of Whale and Dolphin Records. PLoS ONE 6(9): e23951. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023951. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0023951
Brito, C. & V. Jordão (2014). A baleación medieval e moderna en Portugal: Que nos din as fontes históricas? Eubalaena nº 14: 28-40.
Cloquier, C. (2018). L’exploitation des animaux marins de la côte picarde du XIIe au XVIe siècle, in Jacquemard, C., B. Gauvin, M.-A. Lucas-Avenel, B. Clavel & T. Buqet (éds), Animaux aquatiques et monstres des mers septentrionales (imaginer, connaître, exploiter, de l’Antiquité à 1600). Anthropozoologica 53 (13): 149-157. https://doi.org/10.5252/anthropozoologica2018v53a13
or https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/anthropozoologica/53/13