Chalupa (boat)
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A chalupa is a small boat that functions as a shallop, water taxi or gondola, such as those seen at the "floating gardens" of Xochimilco south of Mexico City, Mexico. Txalupa is originally the name of
Chalupa at Port au Choix, Newfoundland
History of Basque whaling
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The Basques of modern day Iberia and France were among the first people to catch whales commercially rather than purely for subsistence, starting perhaps as early as the 600s and with more certainty b
Chalupa (boat)
…such as those seen at the "floating gardens" of Xochimilco south of Mexico City, Mexico. Txalupa is originally the name of the type of whaling boat used by the Basques in the mid-16th century in what is now Newfoundland and Labrador. Chalupa boats are normally rowed or poled, and less commonly motorized. Common…
The distinctive V-shaped blow of a North Atlantic right whale, the primary species hunted by the Basques in the Bay of Biscay
The last whale killed in Orio
Site of one of the Basque whaling stations on Saddle Island. The location of the sunken galleon San Juan (1565) is near the wreck of Bernier (which grounded in 1966).
Whaling in the Basque fisheries (1720)