The Offshore Ground https://essex.nha.org/into-the-pacific/
In 1818, Captain George W. Gardner sailed the Nantucket whaler Globe into the open ocean a thousand miles west of the Peruvian coast, where none of his fellow islanders had sailed before, and discovered rich stocks of sperm whales. Word of this Offshore Ground spread quickly, and scores of ships were hunting there within two years.
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