Story: Whaling

More links and websites

• Taranaki Stories – Richard (Dicky) Barrett

  This exhibition from Puke Ariki museum in New Plymouth gives a detailed and well-illustrated account of the whaler Dicky Barrett.

• The conservation of whales in the 21st century

  From the Department of Conservation, a 2004 summary of New Zealand policy on whaling and whales.

• Sealers and whalers

  NZHistory website overview of pre-1840 whaling in New Zealand.

More suggestions and sources

• McNab, Robert. From Tasman to Marsden: a history of northern New Zealand from 1642 to 1818. Dunedin: J. Wilkie, 1914.
• McNab, Robert. The old whaling days: a history of southern New Zealand from 1830 to 1840. Christchurch: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1913.
• Morton, Harry. The whale’s wake. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 1982.
• Prickett, Nigel. Archaeology of New Zealand shore whaling. Wellington: Dept of Conservation, 2002.
• Wakefield, Edward Jerningham. Adventure in New Zealand. 2 vols. London: John Murray, 1845.