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  • Whaling controversy)
    conservation of whales. Prior to the setting up of the IWC in 1946, unregulated whaling had depleted a number of whale populations to a significant extent, and...
    47 KB (5,354 words) - 15:08, 5 February 2024
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    Pete Bethune (category Articles covered by WikiProject Wikify from August 2022)
    Willacy (27 May 2010). "Anti-whaling activist pleads guilty but denies assault". Australia: ABC News. "New Zealand anti-whaling activist Peter Bethune...
    63 KB (6,829 words) - 14:47, 7 March 2024
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    were able to continue their whaling activities. But, in the high Arctic, Inuit were forced to abandon their hunting and whaling sites as bowhead whales disappeared...
    130 KB (13,858 words) - 21:15, 9 April 2024
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    Hermann Göring, arrived in London to attend the meeting of the International Whaling Conference as part of the German delegation. On 18 July 1939, Wohlthat...
    109 KB (16,886 words) - 02:44, 22 April 2024
  • One high-profile campaign was "Save the Whales", which ended commercial whaling in Australia, following widespread protest against the huge slaughter....
    31 KB (4,024 words) - 21:34, 7 January 2024
  • (2015) – historical adventure-drama about the sinking of the American whaling ship Essex in 1820, an event that inspired Herman Melville's 1851 novel...
    243 KB (28,045 words) - 22:08, 11 April 2024
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    July 1 Japan resumes commercial whaling after a 30-year moratorium, following its withdrawal from the International Whaling Commission. Japan announces tightening...
    207 KB (16,870 words) - 11:14, 25 April 2024
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    eliminating the economic imperative for open-boat whaling, but others say that fossil fuels increased whaling with most whales being killed in the 20th century...
    133 KB (15,004 words) - 06:32, 11 April 2024
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    Cephalopod size (category Articles covered by WikiProject Wikify from April 2021)
    History of the Sperm Whale. To which is added, a sketch of a South-Sea whaling voyage; embracing a description of the extent, as well as the adventures...
    359 KB (29,937 words) - 02:27, 15 April 2024
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    account of his visit. In the early 1800s American whaling vessels operating in the North Pacific whaling grounds routinely sought to land in Japan to gather...
    151 KB (19,213 words) - 21:00, 11 March 2024
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    Video game industry (category Articles covered by WikiProject Wikify from January 2018)
    strong restrictions on what content may be in games, and incorporation of anti-addiction measures to limit playtime. It is home to Asia Game Show, the largest...
    116 KB (11,423 words) - 10:59, 19 April 2024
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    Rafael Correa (category Anti-Americanism)
    environment." In line with this, he had decided to return to the International Whaling Commission to impede the restart of the hunt of whales; established a prohibition...
    176 KB (17,052 words) - 09:15, 7 April 2024
  • general use by the 1850s (and much earlier in communities associated with whaling and trading and those close to European settlements), though it would still...
    52 KB (5,808 words) - 16:51, 6 March 2024
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    Bahia (category Articles covered by WikiProject Wikify from March 2021)
    and slave trading. In the 19th century, the Bay of All Saints was also a whaling spot, as some species of whales used the bay as a mating ground.[citation...
    81 KB (8,192 words) - 13:59, 19 April 2024
  • 2000 Mark Jonathan Harris Deborah Oppenheimer Into the Deep: America, Whaling & the World 2010 Ric Burns Bonnie Lafave, Mary Recine, Robin Espinola,...
    263 KB (1,078 words) - 22:10, 21 April 2024
  • Gorham's Rangers (category Articles covered by WikiProject Wikify from July 2013)
    Gorham III (1709-1751), who, prior to leading the rangers, had been a whaling captain and merchant from Yarmouth, Massachusetts, a small coastal town...
    31 KB (3,708 words) - 19:18, 20 February 2024
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    1961–63. Hooper, Jane. Yankees in the Indian Ocean: American Commerce and Whaling, 1786–1860 (Ohio University Press, 2022) online review Isaacs, Harold R...
    216 KB (22,533 words) - 16:02, 16 April 2024
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    Bay of Islands. Between 1795 and 1830 a steady flow of sealing and then whaling ships visited New Zealand, mainly calling at the Bay of Islands for food...
    135 KB (15,328 words) - 00:45, 20 April 2024
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    Retrieved on 1 April 2011. Fackler, Martin (29 March 2011). "In Japanese Whaling Town, Food Is Rationed but Resolve Is Plentiful". The New York Times. Fujimura...
    95 KB (9,658 words) - 15:52, 4 April 2024
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    carvel skin attached to a frame and deck beams made of iron. Sheet copper anti-fouling ("copper=bottomed") could be attached to a wooden hull provided the...
    40 KB (5,732 words) - 11:32, 23 April 2024
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