The Azores islands were marked for over a century by whaling. Whaling left indelible signs within the Azorean cultural identity, being now a part of the collective Azorean imaginarium. With the end of sperm whale hunting, in last century's 80's decade, a vast patrimony related to this activity remained throughout the archipelago. In all islands, multiple testimonies that attest the technological, social, economic and historical aspects of the Azorean whaling are still visible.

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