That Great America on the Other Side of the Sphere, Australia, was Given to the Enlightened World by Whaleman (Moby Dick: Chapter 24)?🌏🐳

Being an Australian myself I found chapter 24 of Moby Dick very interesting.

I wonder if kings are still anointed with whale oil?-)

Eden, New South Wales, Australia

"Because Eden is equidistant between Sydney and both Melbourne and Tasmania, the port town was considered as a location for the Australian capital following Australian Federation in 1901. However, the ‘Limestone Plains’ in southern New South Wales were chosen instead as the location of the new city of Canberra.
Whaling declined in the 1920s and ended in 1930."

My Old Tom the killer whale magnet on my fridge

"Old Tom – The leader of a pack of killer whales who helped whalers in the port of Eden to capture baleen whales in return for the whales lips and tongues as food. Old Tom's skeleton is on display in the Eden Killer Whale Museum, and it is the only complete killer whale skeleton on display in the Southern Hemisphere."

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Moby-Dick (1851)
by Herman Melville

Moby Dick and Cannibalism?🐳😋

I found the mention of Dunkirk rather eerie knowing the slaughter that was to take place on that beach in WW2. 

The Meaning and Meaninglessness of Life (Part 1)

Also, the mention of Cook and Vancouver I found a bit X-File-ish, considering Gillian Anderson filmed a lot the X-Files episodes in Vancouver and also played Captain Ahab's wife in the version of 'Moby Dick' starring William Hurt -

Moby Dick (2011 miniseries)

William Hurt as Captain Ahab and Gillian Anderson as Elizabeth, Ahab's Wife?🏊🐳

And which nation is the biggest threat to the whale's numbers today?

The Secret Life of Blue Whales?