On this day: June 1

What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on June 1, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.

1. 1851 · Pacific: Steward left on shore.
2. 1838 · Edward Quesnel: Caught a killer whale.
3. 1844 · Rowena: Caught 2 whales.
4. 1847 · Dunbarton: Traders came aboard with hogs and fruit.
5. 1853 · Fortune: Caught a whale.
6. 1834 · Parker: Little hope of finding sperm whales.
7. 1893 · Beluga: Stopped in an ice opening in thick fog.
8. 1906 · Karluk: Ice drifted rapidly westward.

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