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Kōrero: Whaling

Stripping the whale

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Stripping the whale

Once dead, the whale was hauled to the mother ship and attached to the side. The whalers would begin the tough task of cutting off the blubber.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: PUBL-0004

by John Hewside Clark

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Jock Phillips, Whaling – Pursuit and capture, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/artwork/6260/stripping-the-whale (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Jock Phillips, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.