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 three projects, below, (individual data sets are also available for each project separately) and adds data transcribed by Dale Chatwin, primarily for British Southern Whale Fishery voyages.
- 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.
Where Whalers Encountered Whales 1784–1920
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