Whaling - Ship-based whaling - Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand

Whaling - Ship-based whaling - Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand: "For the first 40 years of the 19th century whaling was the most significant economic activity for Europeans in New Zealand – with the hunt first for sperm whales from visiting ships and then for right whales by shore-based whalers. The pursuit had major consequences for Māori society. Some of New Zealand’s most important early European settlers were whalers"