M.F. Maury a nineteenth century U.S. Naval Officer and the “Father of Oceanography” (top) and Historian and Oceanographer C.H. Townsend (bottom) transcribed whaling log books, leaving us a record of Cetacea extractions from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries.
The video at the left maps and animates the location, frequency and numbers of Pacific Sperm (Physeter macrocephalus) strikes and landings between 1790 and 19010.
