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The Whale Road

American whaling, day by day, from the ships' own logbooks.

Data from Whaling History: American Offshore Whaling Voyages, Logbook Data and Crew Lists, and Les Baleiniers Français, by the New Bedford Whaling Museum, Mystic Seaport Museum and Nantucket Historical Association, under CC BY 4.0. Coastlines from Natural Earth. Positions are the ship's own reckoning at noon, good to a few degrees.