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The Shore Whalers of Western Australia: Historical Archaeology of a Maritime Frontier. Studies in Australasian Historical Archaeology 2.

Published by Australasian Society for Historical Archaeology and Sydney University Press, 2010. ISBN 9781920899622 (pbk). 165 pages, illustrated.

Paper: Perfect Bound

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Every winter between 1836 to 1879 small wooden boats left the bays of
southwest Western Australia to hunt for migrating Humpback and Right
whales. In the early years of European settlement these small shore
whaling parties and the whale oil they produced were an important part
of the colonial economy, yet over time their significance diminished
until they virtually vanished from the documentary record.

'The Shore Whalers of Western Australia' uses archival research and
archaeological evidence to examine the history and operation of this
almost forgotten industry on the remote maritime frontier of the British
Empire, and the role of the whalers in the history of early contact
between Europeans and Aboriginal people.

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