French 32 guns-corvette L’Heroine arrived at Hobart, Tasmania according to the The Hobart Town Courier dated 2 February 1838

An item reported the arrival at Hobart, Tasmania on 31 January of the French 32 guns-corvette L’Heroine commanded by Cecille leaving Havre de Grace, France on 1 July 1837. On board of her had been the survivors of the American whalers Atlas and Collossus shipwrecked at Crozet Island and later transferred on sea to American whalers. 

Whaling grounds and seasons for the right whale (Eubalaena glacialis-Eubalaena japonica-Eubalaena Australis) fishery in 1857

Eubalaena glacialis=North Atlantic right whale

Eubalaena japonica=North Pacific right whale

Eubalaena Australis=Southern right whale

-Between November-March off Tristan de Cunha.

-Between January-March off Crozetts and Desolation Islands

-Between October-March off the south coast of New Holland

-Between February-October in the Japan Sea

-Between May-September on the Kodiak grounds

-Between March-November as soon as the sea is ice free in the Ochotsk Sea.

Source

Rev. Lewis Holmes. The Arctic Whaleman or, Winter in the Arctic Ocean. Boston, 1857.