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Thanks for posting the supporting information for Stuart Frank's dating of whaling grounds being extended north of the Bering Straits. Frank was "...Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Kendall Whaling Museum in Sharon, Massachusetts from 1981 until its merger with the New Bedford Whaling Museum in 2001. He is currently Director Emeritus of the Kendall Institute and Senior Cirator of the New Bedford Whaling Museum."

He has had access to a vast collection of whaling log books and is an assiduous researcher. He and his wife Molly Malloy have also recorded several fine CD's.

He also has published a definitive book on pirate songs, THE BOOK OF PIRATE SONGS.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble