WHALE HUNTING
- Hunting in an umiak
- Sassat – beluga whale and narwhal hunting on the sea ice
- The uses of whales
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This part is based on pp. 34-45 – there you will find information about the subject.
Read about whales and climate changes here.
To Inuit whale hunting was very important as it could ensure the survival of the settlement for a whole season.
In the picture you see whale hunting from an umiak. It was built to navigate the Icefjord filled with ice floes.
Who usually uses an umiak – and for what?
What whales live in the Greenlandic waters?
On page 36 is a picture of a “springpels”. When was the springpels used?
When the fjord freezes over fast the whales may not be in time to reach open sea. They then gather in holes in the ice that they keep open to breathe.
This makes them easy to catch, and there can be hundreds of whales at one place when this happens.
What does “sassat” mean, and why did the phenomenon get just that name?
How can climate changes cause sassat to occur seldom today?
There are strict rules for the export of narwhal from Greenland. Why?
When a whale was caught it was fully used. Meat, bones, baleens and train oil – everything could be used.
Whale hunting goes back 4,500 years, and whales always were an important game animal.
On pages 42-43 is a picture of a whale that has been caught. What kind of whale is it?
The whales were fully used – for what?
The European whalers met the Thule population, and they often exchanged goods – what goods?
To Inuit whale hunting was very important as it could ensure the survival of the settlement for a whole season.
In the picture you see whale hunting from an umiak. It was built to navigate the Icefjord filled with ice floes.
Who usually uses an umiak – and for what?
What whales live in the Greenlandic waters?
On page 36 is a picture of a “springpels”. When was the springpels used?
When the fjord freezes over fast the whales may not be in time to reach open sea. They then gather in holes in the ice that they keep open to breathe.
This makes them easy to catch, and there can be hundreds of whales at one place when this happens.
What does “sassat” mean, and why did the phenomenon get just that name?
How can climate changes cause sassat to occur seldom today?
There are strict rules for the export of narwhal from Greenland. Why?
When a whale was caught it was fully used. Meat, bones, baleens and train oil – everything could be used.
Whale hunting goes back 4,500 years, and whales always were an important game animal.
On pages 42-43 is a picture of a whale that has been caught. What kind of whale is it?
The whales were fully used – for what?
The European whalers met the Thule population, and they often exchanged goods – what goods?
