Scottish Arctic Whaling Voyages
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An interactive data viewer for this database is available on the Whaling History website.
https://whalinghistory.org/sv/voyages/

The database description is available on the Whaling History website.
https://whalinghistory.org/sv/


Credits

Scottish Arctic Whaling (1750-WWI): A Digitized Statistical Profile
by Chesley W. Sanger, Professor emeritus, Department of Geography, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL


Creative Commons License

The Scottish Arctic Whaling Voyages database is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at https://whalinghistory.org/contact/.


Preferred citation

Scottish Arctic Whaling (1750-WWI): A Digitized Statistical Profile, by Chesley W. Sanger, at WhalingHistory.org. https://whalinghistory.org/sv/


Formats

This download package includes one data file. The 'saw_20240219.txt' file contains a single row for each recorded voyage; it contains 3,643 records. The file is UTF-8 encoded with Unix line endings between records and no line breaks embedded within any data. Fields are tab-delimited. Each file has column headings in row 1.


Additions & corrections

Users who have facts to add or who discover errors in the database are encouraged to submit them. We plan to update the online database annually. https://whalinghistory.org/participate/corrections/

Column Definitions & Code Tables are available on the Whaling History website.
https://whalinghistory.org/sv/
