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
That includes eras as Britain’s most important whaling port; a textile and shipbuilding center; and, in the second half of the 20th century, the British home to American companies, including Timex and National Cash Register.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2022
Forty years later, I saw my first whales in the wild, off Provincetown, a former whaling port on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 30, 2019
It's ominous, thinks I. A Coffin my Innkeeper upon landing in my first whaling port; tombstones staring at me in the whalemen's chapel, and here a gallows! and a pair of prodigious black pots too!
From Moby Dick: or, the White Whale by Melville, Herman
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