Sentence examples for whaling Expedition from inspiring English sources

Author, senior medical officer of whaling expedition, describes South Georgia Island, the only permanently inhabited place within the winte packice belt surrounding the Antarctic.

Out on Mon In The Heart Of The Sea A salty sea epic that relates the ostensibly true story that inspired Moby Dick, as narrated to Whishaw's Herman Melville decades later by Gleeson, the last survivor of a whaling expedition undone by a smart sperm whale with a long memory.

The New Yorker, January 9 , 1954P. 32 REPORTER AT LARGE about a whaling expedition to the Southern Ocean.

By R. B. Robertson The New Yorker, January 9 , 1954P. 32 REPORTER AT LARGE about a whaling expedition to the Southern Ocean.

The novelist Herman Melville likened these arid islands to "five and twenty heaps of cinders, dumped here and there," when he visited as a member of a whaling expedition in the 19th century, and little has changed in modern times.

The hearings in the Hague will last three weeks and a decision is expected before the end of the year, possibly in time to halt Japan's next whaling expedition.

But despite an IWC moratorium on commercial whaling, Japan has still killed several hundred whales each year through a loophole allowing "scientific" whaling expeditions in the Antarctic Ocean.

He got the billet because Sunderland has made a speciality of the study of captains' logs, or sea-going diaries, from whaling expeditions mounted from North Sea ports in England up to 250 years ago.

Government-sponsored "scientific" whaling expeditions take about a thousand minke and fin whales a year, keeping a limited amount of whale meat on the market in Japan until the day when Japan can win enough votes on the IWC to reintroduce commercial hunting.

Scientists from the Institute of Cetacean Research in Tokyo oversee the whaling expeditions.

Meat from the cull is sold on the open market and the profits used to fund future whaling expeditions.