1A person who hunted whales from a station on the shore.
the harbours of southwestern Australia were being used by sealers and bay whalers
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- The bay whalers concentrated first on what is now the South Australian coast.
- Shore and bay whalers operated differently from the midocean hunters of Nantucket.
- The bay whaler waited for the whales to come to them.
- He was a bay–whaler, ship–owner and self–appointed builder and lay reader.
- This was the first permanent European settlement in the South Island of New Zealand, and its bay whalers were some of the founding fathers of the country.
- 1.1 A boat used for hunting whales from a station on the shore.
it had been outfitted as a bay whaler before being wrecked in 1837
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- The ship was the first of the American vessels to operate as a bay whaler in the South Island.
- Not for her the short season of the bay-whaler that worked close to shore.
- Life on a bay whaler was cramped and uncomfortable.
- She was purchased about 1814 by to sail out of Hobart Town as a bay whaler and sealer under the command of the colourful and redoubtable Captain James Kelly.
- Should one of their ships be only partially successful, she could fill up with the oil secured during her absence by the bay whaler.