Encyclopedia of the Arctic, Nide 3Routledge, 2005 - 2278 sivua "The Encyclopedia of the Arctic offers a rich and dynamic view of, and introduction to, an enormous, incredibly diverse, and rapidly changing part of the world. Its three volumes comprise overviews of hundreds of topics, events, places, people, human cultures, animals, and environments, ranging from geological history, exploration, the cultures and livelihoods of indigenous peoples, geopolitics, international environmental cooperation, natural history, physical processes, life sciences, and environmental change."--Page xxxix. |
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... whales , but we do not know why . Harpooned whales often vomit up lumps of this peat- like , waxy stuff , the largest of which weighed 983 pounds . The sperm whale lives in structured family groups , led by a dominant female , in an ...
... whales , but we do not know why . Harpooned whales often vomit up lumps of this peat- like , waxy stuff , the largest of which weighed 983 pounds . The sperm whale lives in structured family groups , led by a dominant female , in an ...
Sivu 2174
... whales are depict- ed in Stone Age rock carvings in Norway together with hunted animals also suggests that humans hunted whales in that period too . Whales were probably driven ashore with boats and then killed . In the 9th century ...
... whales are depict- ed in Stone Age rock carvings in Norway together with hunted animals also suggests that humans hunted whales in that period too . Whales were probably driven ashore with boats and then killed . In the 9th century ...
Sivu 2178
... whaling fleet . The northwest whaling trade started off the coast of Kamchatka and moved to the Okhotsk Sea , where right and bowhead whales thrived . Within two decades , both whale populations were exterminated in this sea . During ...
... whaling fleet . The northwest whaling trade started off the coast of Kamchatka and moved to the Okhotsk Sea , where right and bowhead whales thrived . Within two decades , both whale populations were exterminated in this sea . During ...
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Thematic List of Entries xxiii | 1556 |
Map of Arctic Populations xliii | 1633 |
Map of Arctic Indigenous Peoples xliv | 2158 |
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