whaling

These pages on the whaling industry even go so far as to distort Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick.”

It had once been a whaling village, and the humble buildings retained a rustic charm, though when Watson arrived the rustic quality was on a steep descent toward ruination.

Located 30 miles off Cape Cod, Nantucket has transformed over centuries from a whaling port to a wealthy seasonal enclave, where typical homes cost millions of dollars yet many sit empty all winter.

As a teenager at the docks of Dundee, Shelley would have seen whaling ships just like the ones on display at the museum.

Scientists around the world will now share and analyse these precious mud samples to work out how human activity - including a century of industrial whaling - affected Antarctica and the rest of our planet.