Boiling whale oil, probably Amsterdam Eiland, Spitsbergen.
Mountain left probably Jan Mayen-eiland (Beerenberg).
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. Cornelis de Man
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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