The New Zealand Sealing Industry - Department of Conservation

Only 18.2% of the sealing voyages to the New Zealand mainland up to 1840
were definitely involved in either depositing a sealing gang on shore then
departing for other activities, or returning to provision, replace or uplift the
gang and collect the cargo that it had accumulated. Another 10% have possible
evidence of such activity (Fig. 11). Clearly some of the voyages for which there
is little surviving data were probably also servicing shore-based gangs, but for
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6
Ship-based sealing
possible
definite
4
2
0
• • • • • •
1790 1800 1810 1820 1830 1840
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Service shore-based gang
4
2
0
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1790 1800 1810 1820 1830 1840
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Service boat-based gang
2
0
• • • • • •
1790 1800 1810 1820 1830 1840
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Collect cargo
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4
2
0
• • • • • •
1790 1800 1810 1820 1830 1840
Figure 11. Sealing strategies inferred for voyages to the New Zealand mainland, 1791–1840.
Note that some voyages are counted as possible candidates for more then one strategy, and that
for 20% of voyages no strategy has been inferred because of insufficient data.
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