whaling
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Reports of sperm whales using their heads to strike objects date back to open-boat whaling in the 19th century.
From Science Daily • Mar. 23, 2026
The Browns had a hand in everything from ironmaking and rum distilling to whaling and the slave trade.
From Barron's • Jan. 28, 2026
California shut down the nation’s last whaling station in 1971.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2026
Shetlander Helen Balfour is the assistant curator at the South Georgia Museum in Grytviken, one of the island's former whaling stations.
From BBC • Dec. 31, 2025
Then Volkheimer urges him back and climbs halfway up the ruined staircase and begins whaling away at the edges of the hole with a piece of rebar.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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