Introduction: The Literature, History and Culture of the Sea, 1600–Present

Mathieson, Charlotte

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“…Both physical events and large fauna occurrences-especially if very impressive or rare-claim their space into peoples' minds, fantasies, myths, stories, traditions and, consequently, feed into their cultural productions, namely a wide range of narrative modes. They allow for establishing a relationship between the sea and cultural narratives and to explore the ways the sea and its events and animals have been portrayed, as well as the diverse ways the sea has shaped those narrative modes too (Mathieson 2016). Hence, by exploring the potential of using the whale's-eye view, we can trace back the history and origin of different memories and oral stories constructed locally around the presence of whales and other marine mammals in the Tagus estuary.…”

Section: Conclusion: Skogula and Lily's Agency In Their Historical Nmentioning

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The Voice of Skogula in ‘Beasts Royal’ and a Story of the Tagus Estuary (Lisbon, Portugal) as Seen through a Whale’s-Eye View

Brito

2019

Humanities

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Patrick O’Brian inspired this work, with his 1934 book of chronicles “Beasts Royal,” where he gives a voice to animals. Therein, among other animals, we find Skogula, a young sperm whale journeying with his family group across the South Seas and his views on the surrounding world, both underwater and on land. This paper tells a story of historical natural events, from the viewpoint of a fin whale that travelled, rested and stranded in the Tagus estuary mouth (Lisbon, Portugal) during the early 16th century. It allows us to move across time and explore the past of this estuarine ecosystem. What kind of changes took place and how can literature and heritage contribute to understand peoples’ constructions of past environments, local maritime histories and memories? In the second part of this essay we present a fictional short story, supported on historical documental sources and imagery research where Lily, the whale, is the main character. Thus, we see the Tagus estuary as perceived through this whale’s-eye view. Finally, we discuss past earthquakes, whale strandings, the occurrence of seals and dolphins and peoples’ perceptions of the Tagus coastal environment across time. We expect to make a contribution to the field of the marine environmental humanities. We will do so both by addressing, by means of this literary approach, the writing of “new thalassographies,” oceanic historiographies and “historicities” and by including all intervening actors—people, animals and the physical space—in the understanding of the past of more-than-human aquatic worlds.

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Section: Conclusion: Skogula and Lily's Agency In Their Historical Nmentioning

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The Voice of Skogula in ‘Beasts Royal’ and a Story of the Tagus Estuary (Lisbon, Portugal) as Seen through a Whale’s-Eye View

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2019

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“…H ARBORS are important fixed facilities for cargo distribution and ship docking, which is an important transportation center for a country [1]. With the development of economic globalization and increase of international trade activities, harbors have become increasingly important gateways in international economic development, and their strategic significance for national development is self-evident [2][3][4]. Harbor detection has been widely applied in many fields, in civil application such as maritime management, harbors planning and construction, and military aspects such as coastal surveillance and intelligence reconnaissance [5][6][7].…”

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A Multidirectional One-Dimensional Scanning Method for Harbor Detection From SAR Images

Wang¹,

Pei²,

Xu³

et al. 2021

IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Observations Remote Sensing

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With the development of economic globalization, coastal harbors have become an increasingly important gateway for international trade. Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is an important microwave sensor with high resolution imaging capability. Harbor detection in SAR images is of great significance for timely obtaining coastal intelligence of a country. However, due to its complexity and diversity, harbor detection is challenging. In this paper, a harbor detection method based on multidirectional one-dimensional scanning is proposed. First, discrete coastline to obtain control points, and multiple directions are selected at each control point, values of scanned pixels in each direction are recorded to obtain the representation vector. Then, design a onedimensional convolutional neural network for harbor features identification of representation vectors. Finally, the harbors are located by clustering feature points. The proposed method can extract vectors to characterize the distribution of land, waters, and wharfs. Therefore, the problem of object detection in twodimensional images is transformed into the identification of representation vectors. The method is effective for harbors with various scales and forms and has low computational complexity. Experimental results on spaceborne SAR images demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

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All at sea? Using seaborne mobilities to decolonialise national narratives in maritime museums

Sutherland

2021

Mobilities

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The article argues that British maritime museums do more to represent the nation than the sea, thereby contributing to nation-building discourse, and offers an alternative way of thinking about belonging through the lens of maritime mobilities. The United Kingdom's national maritime museums are, of course, but a few among many museums seeking to incorporate a more diverse range of community voices and perspectives into their collections and exhibitions.Yet maritime museums are a particularly pertinent example of Britain's nation-building discourse due to the global reach of Britain's seaborne colonialism and exploration, and the concomitant range of their galleries. The article discusses the National Maritime Museum in Falmouth, Cornwall (NMMC) in the wider context of how maritime museums depict the nation. It argues that the NMMC's presentation of the sea illustrates how nation-building connects with colonialism in latent, largely unacknowledged ways that are broadly representative of Britain's maritime museums. The article concludes that were maritime museums to take seaborne mobility as a starting point for decolonialised exhibits, they would provide visitors with a greater range of tools with which to critically analyse Britain's maritime histories, the legacies of which are still being played out today.

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Introduction: The Literature, History and Culture of the Sea, 1600–Present

Cited by 4 publications

References 19 publications

The Voice of Skogula in ‘Beasts Royal’ and a Story of the Tagus Estuary (Lisbon, Portugal) as Seen through a Whale’s-Eye View

The Voice of Skogula in ‘Beasts Royal’ and a Story of the Tagus Estuary (Lisbon, Portugal) as Seen through a Whale’s-Eye View

A Multidirectional One-Dimensional Scanning Method for Harbor Detection From SAR Images

All at sea? Using seaborne mobilities to decolonialise national narratives in maritime museums

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