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Sentence Examples The Falklands were colonised by house sparrows travelling aboard a fleet of whalers from Uruguay. Those groups are the remnants of populations that were decimated by whalers and other seafarers who killed the creatures for food. I'm sitting behind Tommy and five other former whalers in a whale observation tent high above the choppy seas of Cook Strait. The boat turned out to be a chalupa from the 1500s, built and used by Basque whalers. Foremost among the whalers was the harpooner and among the great harpooners the name of Ollivierre stands out. The size and speed of blue whales once served to discourage human whalers in the days of sail-powered ships and hand-thrown harpoons. Makah whalers threw harpoons on three occasions, but the harpoons did not attach to a gray whale on any of these attempts. It's that time of year again when whalers and conservationists square off at the annual general meeting of the International Whaling Commission. In the 1790s, the islands began to attract whalers from Europe who established the first settlements on the coast. The whalers often discovered giant squid beaks inside the stomachs of these whales. The Sami, like the Inuit, lived in the Arctic for thousands of years before European whalers braved the Northern climate. Back in the days when whalers hunted sperm whales, they often reported seeing fish fly through the air when the leviathans surfaced. He was told to go and assert British law over the lawless whalers, sealers, timber merchants, and other settlers. The whalers also thought they had much knowledge to share about whale watching in the Azores. The most common shark attacks are from tigers, dusky whalers and bull sharks. The most common sharks found off the Mid West coast were tiger sharks, black tip reef sharks and bronze whalers. In the 1800s, missionaries brought cakes, Chinese brought chicken, and Norwegian whalers brought salmon marinated with onion and tomato. In the 1997 season Norwegian whalers in 31 vessels killed 503 Minke whales of their 580-whale quota. Alice Roberts looks back at Dundee's history of whaling and meets former whalers who risked their lives in this now reviled industry. The International Whaling Commission has granted the whalers of the island of Bequia with Aboriginal Whaling Status. Show More Sentences Fisheries science has long argued that whalers were killing too many whales and that their numbers were dwindling alarmingly. Weyler is one of those who went out on the open sea in tiny boats, looking the whalers in the eye until they finally blinked. However, the island's desolation was offset by whalers who came aboard from the ships Emma Jane and Roswell King. Since the international ban on whaling 21 years ago, cruising sailboats have replaced whalers as the primary visitors to the islands. Satellite imagery becomes useful for interpreting ice conditions to be faced by whalers no later than early March. What to do with the majestic but little seen The White Dawn, a story of stranded whalers rescued by eskimos in the Arctic. Whaling reached its peak in New Bedford in 1857, when the city was home port to 329 registered vessels, half the total number of whalers in the service of the United States. This attracted whalers and fishing vessels, as well as the natural deep water which was a suitable harbour to sea vessels on voyage around Cape of Good Hope. Whaling stations were set up on Spitzbergen, which teemed with life during the whaling season, reverting to a ghost town once the whalers had left. Early in the nineteenth century crews of visiting ships came looking for flax, and from 1829 whalers came to share the bounty in this southern area. According to local legend, the killer whales would even guide the tiny whale boats out to the hunt so that the whalers could harpoon and lance the harassed animal. When the Makahs stopped whaling in the 1920s it was because commercial whalers, harpooning all they could find, had nearly driven the gray whales to extinction. Whaling ended here in 1964 and since then the nearby whaling station rusted to a skeleton, the whalers dispersed and their numbers declined much like the whales. We can be 140 kilometres from the sea, and yet there'll be bronze whalers, stingrays, the highest level of freshwater turtle diversity in Australia. Those reports also found a wide readership among other explorers, and the southern ocean soon teemed with whalers and sealers from all over the world. Over the years whalers have reported finding a high number of large squid beaks in the mammals' stomachs, pegging sperm whales as primary predators of large squid. The whalers fight back, with devices such as water cannon and acoustic devices. Some ziphiids are pursued by whalers for their oil and spermaceti. Visitors can learn about the volcanic birth of the Hawaiian Islands and the adventures of the early Polynesian voyagers, European explorers and whalers. But here they are again, six whalers sitting as they used to, straddling chairs built from wooden boxes with binoculars attached to the high backs. Show More Sentences From 1845 to about 1900, American whalers hunted gray whales on their winter grounds in Baja California, as well as their summer grounds in the subarctic. Black swans had been greatly reduced in numbers by whalers and piners. After the biggest whales were hunted to the point that they were too hard to find, the whalers went on to the next largest species, the fin whale. While in Halfmoon Bay the party went to Kaipipi where the Norwegian whalers had their base and saw the foundations of old buildings, much ironware, and a large boiler. I'm not saying the characters aren't trite, I'm just saying the film goes out of its way to portray the whalers as uninformed rather than demonizing them. Early whalers exploited this behaviour, attracting a whole unit by injuring one of its members. Most of the whalers were Norwegian, with an increasing proportion of Britons. Ancient whalers used harpoons to spear the bigger animals from boats out at sea. The largest ridge was called the 'hump' by whalers, and can be mistaken for a dorsal fin because of its shape and size. The Danish government had maintained a strict monopoly of Greenlandic trade, allowing only small scale troaking with Scottish whalers. The Dutchman Willem Barents discovered Bear Island and Svalbard, which was then used by Russian whalers called pomors. Jan Mayen island was discovered in 1607 and become an important base of Dutch whalers. In Japanese, the whale was called iwashi kujira, or sardine whale, a name originally applied to Bryde's whales by early Japanese whalers. Whaling at Spitsbergen lasted until the 1820s, when the Dutch, British and Danish whalers moved elsewhere in the Arctic. Easily exploited by hunters, whalers and fishermen in the 19th century, Hawaiian monk seals essentially never recovered. Reindeer were introduced to South Georgia in 1911 by Norwegian whalers for meat and for sport hunting. Dudley in 1725, as one target of early New England whalers, was almost certainly the gray whale. Yankee whalers moved into the South Atlantic before the end of the 18th century. Hooper, was seeking the Jeannette and two missing whalers in addition to conducting general exploration. Many British whaling ships carried letters of marque allowing them to prey on American whalers, and they nearly destroyed the industry. Show More Sentences Dudley in 1725 as one of the species hunted by the early New England whalers, was almost certainly the gray whale. Some populations, such as in Alaska's Prince William Sound, may have been reduced significantly by whalers shooting them in retaliation. Basque whalers would have given it such name after observing pods of orcas hunting baleen whales. Between 1850 and 1973, 88,000 individuals were caught, primarily by Norwegian and British whalers. Thus, by pulling the rope with a motor, the whalers can drag the whale back to their ship. It was discovered in the early 18th century by British whalers and since late 1750s was used for seal hunting. Whaling was an important economic activity from the 9th until the 13th century for Flemish whalers. Modern whalers use explosive harpoons to kill whales by detonating a penthrite grenade within the head or thorax, inducing neurotrauma and death. The 2006 catch by Japanese whalers included 505 Antarctic minke whales. However, by the early 1970s, following the overhunting of larger whales such as the sei, fin, and blue whales, minkes became a more attractive target of whalers. Killer whale cannibalism has also been reported based on analysis of stomach contents, but this is likely to be the result of scavenging remains dumped by whalers. Wooden whales, or whales cut in profile out of the small dark slabs of the noble South Sea warwood, are frequently met with in the forecastles of American whalers. The whalers are one of the largest and best known family of sharks. Worldwide there are 48 species in 12 genera. However, relatively few species are on the Great Barrier Reef. In 1626 this station was damaged by York and Hull whalers, who then sailed to their whaling station in Midterhukhamna, just across the entrance of Van Keulenfjorden. Since the moratorium on commercial whaling, some sei whales have been taken by Icelandic and Japanese whalers under the IWC's scientific research programme. Buenos Aires named Vernet military and civil commander of the islands in 1829, and he attempted to regulate sealing to stop the activities of foreign whalers and sealers. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the walrus was heavily exploited by American and European sealers and whalers, leading to the near extirpation of the Atlantic population. Examples from Classical Literature Lots of whalers has been chased for darin' to ply their trade in these same waters. In May the first whalers follow the kamchatkan Coast northward, as the ice melts on that shore earlier than on ours. One day one of our whalers entered tanga harbour the very day the German mines were lifted for the periodical overhaul. According to his information, there remained but one uncaptured of the British whalers which centered around the islands. I noticed a similar practice prevailing among the whalers at the galapagos islands in the Pacific. The finner, or great black fish, is feared by whalers in general. In his youth he attained the rank of harpooner in Peterhead whalers. Then the whalers did not use a gun, but threw the harpoon by hand. During my researches in the leviathanic histories, I stumbled upon an ancient Dutch volume, which, by the musty whaling smell of it, I knew must be about whalers. In like manner, the Greenland whalers sailing out of Hull or London, put in at the Shetland Islands, to receive the full complement of their crew. Find more words! 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