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pl23_reef3710.jpg

Large hook for lifting blubber from stripped whale to the rendering pot

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Description

Large hook for lifting blubber from stripped whale to the rendering pot. Fromship wreck of early Nineteenth Century whaling vessel on Pearl and Hermes Reef.

Photographer

Dr. Dwayne Meadows

Display Date

2004 October

Location

Hawaii, Northwest Hawaiian Islands

Collection

Coral Kingdom

NOAA Affiliation

NOAA

NMFS

OPR

Keywords

Coral Reefs

Shipwreck

Maritime Heritage