Whaling Disaster of 1871
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Whaling Disaster of 1871 was an incident off the northern Alaskan coast in which a fleet of 33 American whaling ships were trapped in the Arctic ice in late 1871 and subsequently abandoned. It dealt a serious blow to the American whaling industry, already in decline.In late June 1871, forty whalers passed north through Bering Strait, chasing bowhead whales. By August the vessels had passed as far as Point Belcher, near Wainwright, Alaska, before a stationary high, parked over northeast Siberia, reversed the normal wind pattern and pushed the pack ice toward the Alaskan coast. Seven ships were able to escape to the south, but 33 others were trapped. Within two weeks the pack had tightened around the vessels, crushing four ships. The vessels were spread out in a long line, some 60 miles (97 km) south of Point Franklin.
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- GTIN 09786131154638
- Editor Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
- EAN 9786131154638
- Format Fachbuch
- Titel Whaling Disaster of 1871
- Herausgeber Betascript Publishing
- Anzahl Seiten 148
- Genre Biologie
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