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MARC recordSealing at Heard Island in the nineteenth century / Max Downes, Elizabeth Downes.
| Title: | Sealing at Heard Island in the nineteenth century / Max Downes, Elizabeth Downes. |
| Author(s): | Downes, Max. Downes, Elizabeth. |
| Date: | 2006. |
| Publisher: | Chipping Norton, NSW: Surrey Beatty |
| In: | Heard Island : Southern Ocean sentinel. (2006.), |
| Abstract: | Presents overview of sealing period at Heard Island from 1855-82, with peak between 1857-59. Includes history of discovery of island and possible first sightings; details of sea-elephant oil shipped from island compared with hunting effort; accounts of sealing voyages and shipwrecks; description of specialist vessels, hunting and processing methods, and living conditions of sealers. |
| Notes: | In: Heard Island : Southern Ocean sentinel / Ken Green, Eric J. Woehler, eds. |
| Keywords: | 639.24 -- Marine mammals, hunting. 639.247.4 -- Sealing industry. 599.745.3 -- Phocidae: Mirounga leonina. 93"195" -- 1950-1959. 93"196" -- 1960-1969. 93"197" -- 1970-1979. 91(091) -- Exploration, history. V -- History. (*7) -- Antarctic regions. (*78) -- Sub-Antarctic islands. (*785) -- Heard and McDonald Islands. (*785.1) -- Heard Island. |
| SPRI record no.: | 183912 |
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