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30 de mai. de 2024 · Britain's Whale Hunters: The Untold Story. Home. Episodes. Clips. 1950s photos from the whaling world. The whaling fleet ships. Adam Nicolson looks at how and why whale populations were so...
Há 5 dias · Adam Nicolson examines how whale oil and whale bone were used in lighting, corsets, soap and umbrellas and finds out about the treacherous conditions many hunters faced.
Amazing rarely-seen archive footage and first-hand testimony from the last of Britain’s whale hunters reveals what it was really like to have been a whale hunter in Antarctica, providing Europe with essential oils for soap and food.
31 de mai. de 2014 · 200 years ago, whale oil and whale bone were used in lighting, corsets, soap and umbrellas. British boats flocked to the Arctic, but many died in pursuit of whales.
8 de jun. de 2014 · In the twentieth century, whaling ships killed 1.5 million whales in Antarctica, bringing the biggest creatures that have ever lived to the brink of extinction. Whalers from Europe led the rush south and were still whaling into the 1960s.
10 de jun. de 2014 · Adam Nicolson in Norway, aboard a restored Antarctic whale-catching vessel. Before the Vikings came to Britain there was no whaling, though coastal-dwellers would avail themselves of any beached strays by chopping them up for their meat and oil.
Adam Nicolson looks at the history of British Whale Hunting and the lost whaling communities.
