whaling port
Americannoun
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Located 30 miles off Cape Cod, Nantucket has transformed over centuries from a whaling port to a wealthy seasonal enclave, where typical homes cost millions of dollars yet many sit empty all winter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2025
They included the Pioneer Inn, a hotel dating from the town’s historical days as a whaling port, and the residence of Hawaii’s King Kamehameha III in the 19th century.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 15, 2023
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s constituency includes the whaling port of Shimonoseki, and he has also come under pressure from lawmakers in his Liberal Democratic Party whose electoral districts include whaling or dolphin-hunting communities.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 26, 2018
Douglass’s struggle against slavery and for black equality threads through 19th-century America, from plantation to whaling port, from the pulpits of Boston to the battlefields of bloody Virginia.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 28, 2018
In a whaling port there is no cod-fish aristocracy.
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Drake, Samuel Adams
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