Whalers and woggins: a new vocabulary for interpreting some early accounts of the great auk and penguins

Archives of Natural History

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 69-78

  Olson, Storrs L ^a   Lund, Judith N ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

etymology; Pinguinus impennis; Spheniscidae; whaling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84991612682     PISSN: 02609541     EISSN: 17556260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3366/anh.2007.34.1.69     Document Type: Article

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