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To Spitsbergen and Back: Four Centuries of Dutch Whaling
28 September 2021
The sale of the factory ship Willem Barendsz II to Japan in 1964 marked the end of Dutch whaling, which had started in 1612. Whaling in the polar regions was hard and dangerous work, the profits variable. And what about the whale population?