place

nantucket

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Properties

Ahab's_memory
first saw the sea as a boy
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0
associated_industry
whaling
associated_ship
Pequod
association
Pequod's owners
demographics
Quaker settlement
description
An island off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, associated with the owners of the Pequod. Ahab disdainfully suggests the owners should 'stand on Nantucket beach'.
economic_activity
whaling
geographical_type
island
historical_significance
whaling port
industry
whaling
location
Massachusetts
location_type
island
observed_custom
burial canoes for whalemen
significance
Ahab's origin
type
island

Relationships

  • originally_settled_byQuaker
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    Nantucket was originally settled by the Quaker sect, influencing its culture and inhabitants.
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    the island having been originally settled by that sect;
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  • referenced_byPequod
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    The Pequod, of Nantucket, Meets the Samuel Enderby
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  • referenced_byBurial Canoe (Queequeg's desired)
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    while in Nantucket he had chanced to see certain little canoes of dark wood, like the rich war-wood of his native isle; and upon inquiry, he had learned that all whalemen who died in Nantucket, were laid in those same dark canoes
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  • referenced_byStarbuck
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    Wife and child, too, are Starbuck’s—wife and child of his brotherly, sisterly, play-fellow youth; even as thine, sir, are the wife and child of thy loving, longing, paternal old age! Away! let us away!—this instant let me alter the course! How cheerily, how hilariously, O my Captain, would we bowl on our way to see old Nantucket again! I think, sir, they have some such mild blue days, even as this, in Nantucket
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  • referenced_byAhab
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    from the sand-hills of Nantucket!
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  • referenced_byWhale Ship Essex
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  • referenced_byWhale-ship Globe
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    Whale-ship Globe, on board of which vessel occurred the horrid transactions we are about to relate, belonged to the island of Nantucket.”
  • referenced_byDaniel Webster
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  • referenced_byJeroboam
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    which proved the ship to be the Jeroboam of Nantucket.
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  • referenced_byNat Swaine
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    bravest boat-header out of all Nantucket and the Vineyard
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  • referenced_byEssex (ship)
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    the ship Essex, Captain Pollard, of Nantucket
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    At this day Captain Pollard is a resident of Nantucket.
  • referenced_byUnion (ship)
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    The ship Union, also of Nantucket
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  • referenced_byPequod's Owners
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    Let the owners stand on Nantucket beach
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