South Pacific Ocean

Joshua L. Reid concludes that the history of Pacific whaling has undergone a scholarly renaissance.

Billie Lythberg and Wayne Ngata explore what it means to be whale people in the modern whaling period.

Adam Paterson and Chris Wilson consider Ngarrindjeri contributions to Southern Australia’s nineteenth-century whaling industry.

Kate Stevens and Angela Wanhalla explore the role of Māori women in nineteenth-century shore-whaling.

Susan A. Lebo analyzes three decades of newspaper articles reporting whaling in Hawaiian waters from the 1840s.

Vicki Luker details the important role played by tabua—or whales’ teeth—in Fijian history.

Nancy Shoemaker considers the four main products harvested in the nineteenth-century sperm whale trade.

Lissa Wadewitz juxtaposes the American animal welfare movement with American whaling crews.

Lissa Wadewitz juxtaposes the American animal welfare movement with American whaling crews.