This complementary guide provides information on Alaskan institutions that provide primary resources related to whaling.

Photos, journals, and short videos on whaling.

Alaskan organization that monitors whaling and represents Alaskan interests to the International Whaling Commission.

Historical resources on the bowhead whale, byy W.M. Marquette (Alaska Fisheries Science Center).

National Geographic overview of whaling.

Scientific research on whales and subsistence whaling, undertaken by the North Slope Borough. Principal Investigators: J. Craig George, Robert Suydam.

From the Smithsonian Institution On the Water online exhibition.

By Mark Markowitz. Where US military history and Arctic whaling intersect.

From the Civil War Collection of the State Archives of North Carolina, this collection includes the story of the Confederate commerce raider CSS Shenandoah sinking Yankee whaling ships off Alaska and in the Bering Strait at the end of the U.S. Civil War (1864-65). See especially the digitized log book in the Civil War Collection.

National Marine Sanctuary Program of NOAA documentation of Arctic shipwrecks and artifacts from commercial whaling disasters including the incursions of the CSS Shenandoah during the Civil War and the ice-bound fleets of 1871 and 1876.

Includes aboriginal whaling strike limits and number and types of whales taken annually in aboriginal, commercial and special permit / scientific research whaling since 1986.

Transcript of PBS American Experience Program; lesson plans available.

Video of an actual subsistence whale hunt.

Objects, photos, archival records of oral histories related to whaling, from the North Slope cultural center.

This Whaling Collection includes items related to a high concentration of ships that traveled to the North Slope of Alaska in the 19th century.

Bibliographies, digitized archival material and finding aids, teachers’ resources.

This collection at the Providence Public Library (PPL), Rhode Island, includes information on many ships that traveled to the North Slope of Alaska in the 19th century.

This collection in the Providence Public Library in Rhode Island, includes whaling photos from many ships that traveled to the North Slope of Alaska in the 19th century.

Short video from the Alaska Dispatch News of a North Slope subsistence whale hunt.

Archaeological findings of whaling ships from the National Marine Sanctuaries program of NOAA.

Short video of subsistence whale hunt by Brian McClatchy.

Brief overview of historical whaling activity in the Alaska and Yukon Arctic.

Whaling from the Alaska Native perspective by Tupou L. (Qipuk) Pulu, Ruth (Tatqavin) Ramoth-Sampson, Angeline (Ipiixik) Newlin.

Timeline of historical whaling activity, from the Alaska Humanities Forum Alaska History Course Overview.

Basic information about the whale family.

Scroll down for basic information about whales from NOAA.

Information about bowhead whale research, whale acoustics, bubble-netting, prey, and cow-calf studies from the Center for Coastal Conservation on Baranof Island.

Reports of benign research, whale censuses and bio-acoustics.

Reports from the IWC on whale environmental conditions.

University of Alaska Project Jukebox oral histories in English and Iñupiaq documenting historical changes in sea ice conditions affecting whaling and hunting.

From Cultural Survival Quarterly: 22.3 (Fall 1998)

Report on the International Whaling Convention and subsistence whaling rights issues by the Congressional Research Service (July 22, 2013).

Overview of the act governing marine mammals including whales.

U.S. law governing protection of marine mammals, including whales (16 USC Chapter 31).

Subsistence whaling in the Arctic and worldwide from the point of view of the Animal Welfare Institute.