. Discovery reports. Discovery (Ship); Scientific expeditions; Ocean; Antarctica; Falkland Islands. 242 DISCOVERY REPORTS owing to the war between England and Spain. Until that year whalers had been prevented from operating in Australasian waters by the limits imposed by the British. Fig. I East India Company, who controlled by permit all whaling operations between longitudes 51° and 180° E. New Zealand Sperm whaling thus really dates from the year 1798, when, as a result of the reported presence of Spanish warships off Cape Horn, whalers were instructed to pass into Australasian waters for th

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. Discovery reports. Discovery (Ship); Scientific expeditions; Ocean; Antarctica; Falkland Islands. 242 DISCOVERY REPORTS owing to the war between England and Spain. Until that year whalers had been prevented from operating in Australasian waters by the limits imposed by the British. Fig. I East India Company, who controlled by permit all whaling operations between longitudes 51° and 180° E. New Zealand Sperm whaling thus really dates from the year 1798, when, as a result of the reported presence of Spanish warships off Cape Horn, whalers were instructed to pass into Australasian waters for the duration of the war (McNab, 1914).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Institute of Oceanographic Sciences (Great Britain); National Institute of Oceanography of Great Britain; Great Britain. Colonial Office. Discovery Committee. London ; New York : Cambridge University Press

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