Bookkeeper De Commercie Compagnie van Vlaardingen
1721
Whales 0 Barrels blubber 0
1722
Whales 2 Barrels blubber 85
Bookkeeper Kryn van Holst en Gijsbert Prince, Rotterdam
1736
Whales 3.5 Barrels blubber 140
1737
Whales 2.5 Barrels blubber 110
Totals
Whales 8 Barrels blubber 335
Source
Alphabetische naam-lyst van alle de Groenlandsche en Straat-Davidsche Commandeurs die sedert het jaar 1700 op Groenland en sedert het jaar 1719 op de Straat Davis etc. Gerret van Sant. Published by Johannes Enschede, Amsterdam 1770, with hand written notes until 1794.
People in the 17th and 18th centuries held a different geographical view than people today. This means that when we speak of “Greenland whaling”, “the term “Greenland” actually refers to Svalbard, whereas “Davis Strait” refers to whaling off the coast of present-day Greenland. The Davis Strait is a southern arm of the Arctic Ocean that lies north of the Labrador Sea. It lies between mid-western Greenland and Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada.
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