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...Blaskets got their name from the Gaelic word blascaod, which means, literally, "whale-backed island...
...title role in Herman Melville's classic Moby Dick is played by a white sperm whale that got one of Captain Ahab's legs-and eventually got the whole of him. Moby Dick himself escaped triumphantly, and flesh & blood whalers have claimed that nothing like him was ever harpooned before or since...
Last week the whale ship Anglo Norse put in at Elizabeth, N.J., with photographs of a real Moby Dick: an albino sperm whale harpooned off Peru several months ago by Gunner Henrik Nilsen. The whale was a 56-ton patriarch, all milky white with a bluish tinge around the tail. Gunner Nilsen struck first, lived to see his prey cut up and rendered...
With reference to Malcolm D. Rivkin's article on the front page of Tuesday's CRIMSON, I fail to see much connection between the report of a recent capture of a white whale and a symbolic interpretation of "Moby Dick." Herman Melville created his work of fiction using as a basis for his story a vast wealth of factual and mythical information surrounding the whaling industry. One of these myths was about the terrible fierceness of white sperm whales. The whiteness was ascribed to old age, not to an albino condition as far as I know. If I remember correctly...
...whale was reported captured and killed by the French ship Anglo Norse. The crew took photographs of the beast to certify their catch, and according to the production manager of the whaling fleet of which the Anglo Norse was a member, this was the first albino sperm whale ever taken...