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Cutting blubber from a sperm whale at the Akutan Whaling Station

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Description

Cutting blubber from a sperm whale at the Akutan Whaling Station. (Physetermacrocephalus known as Physeter catodon at time of photo.)

Location

Alaska, Aleutian Islands, Akutan

Collection

Historic Fisheries