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Jamaica’s Bloody Bay was where whalers would butcher their catch in the 19th century.—Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024 Shackleton purchased a wooden Norwegian whaler, Foca I, which his wife Emily renamed Quest.—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 June 2024 But by merely documenting their experiences in unfamiliar waters, whalers have unwittingly allowed generations later to learn more about how the climate is changing.—Benjamin Cassidy, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 June 2024 Other nations soon followed, and by the mid-20th century, industrial whalers from the United States, Japan, Russia and elsewhere had likely massacred 90 percent of the planet’s blue whale population.—Andrew Chapman, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for whaler
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