M.F. Maury, a nineteenth-century U.S. Naval Officer and the “Father of Oceanography”, and Historian and Oceanographer C.H. Townsend transcribed whaling log books, leaving us a record of Cetacea extractions from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries.

This video left maps and animates the location, frequency and numbers of Pacific Sperm (Physeter macrocephalus) strikes and landings between 1790 and 1910.