Nordcaper

English thumb|Mural showing a whaler and Nordcaper Alternative forms en nordcaper north-caper Etymology Borrowing from Dutch, a reference to the North Cape in Finnmark, Norway, where most of these whales were found by Dutch and Norwegian whalers. Noun A type of baleen whale from the North Atlantic (Balaena mysticetus species or Balaena biscayensis species). en 1880 Recent Polar Voyages William Henry Davenport Adams Besides the “Nordcapers,” the voyagers one day fell in with another species of dolphin, three or four of which gambolled under the Germania's bows. en 1926 Fishery Board for Scotland Scientific Investigations Fishery Board for Scotland 8 Taking all our 69 Nordcapers together, the average girth, according to the measurements given, is just about 63 per cent. of the length of the fish ; that is to say, a whale of average size, say 474 feet long, would have a girth of 30 feet. en 1935 The Zoology of the Faroes: Vermes, Tardigrada Ragnar Spärck; Søren Ludvig Tuxen It may be mentioned that thus it was evidently not merely by chance that a Nordcaper was caught near the Faroes the same year. en 1998 Some Hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, in the North Atlantic Ocean Dale R. Calder; Willem Vervoort 356 he repeated that he received the material from a whaler who had collected it from a ”Nordcaper” between Iceland and Newfoundland.