American Whaling Logbook data

The American Offshore Whaling Logbook database, contains records transcribed from whaling log books giving information on the whales seen and captured, and the date and the location of the vessel. This database consolidates information from the following three projects. Individual data sets are also available for each project separately.
- By Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Fontaine Maury in the 1850s
- By Charles Haskins Townsend in the 1930s
- By a team from the Census of Marine Life project (CoML, www.coml.org) between 2000 and 2010.