Southern Right Whale in Australian Waters
- 1 August 1956
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Mammalogy
- Vol. 37 (3) , 456-457
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1376772
Abstract
The importance of the southern right whale (Balaena australis Desmoulins) in the early settlement of Australia is not generally recognised. The pursuit of this whale brought many of the first non-convict settlers to Australian (especially Tasmanian) shores. In fact a whaler carried the first settlers to Tasmania in 1803, and for the next forty years this new colony was mainly engaged in the pursuit of the southern right whale, as reviewed by Dakin (whalemen adventueers, 1934).Keywords
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