DCHP-3

Arctic whale

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the bowhead, Balaena mysticetus.

Quotations

1909
The members of the Baleen Whale family are the Sulphur-Bottoms, the Finner Whales or Rorquals, the Humpbacks, and the king of all whales, the founder of the municipality of Herschel Island, whom his pursuers call indiscrim­inately the "Arctic Whale," "Polar Whale," "Greenland Whale," "Bowhead," "Right Whale," or "Icebreaker."