nantucket
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- Ahab's_memory
- first saw the sea as a boy
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- 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'.
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- 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
- description
- 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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- 2026-03-02T00:03:38.406Z
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- referenced_byPequod
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- The Pequod, of Nantucket, Meets the Samuel Enderby
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- 2026-03-02T00:07:56.959Z
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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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- 2026-03-02T00:08:02.366Z
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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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- 2026-03-02T00:08:08.563Z
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- referenced_byAhab
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- from the sand-hills of Nantucket!
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- 2026-03-02T00:08:09.175Z
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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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- 2026-03-02T00:08:12.136Z
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- referenced_byJeroboam
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- which proved the ship to be the Jeroboam of Nantucket.
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- 2026-03-02T00:08:14.740Z
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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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- 2026-03-02T00:08:20.178Z
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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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- 2026-03-02T00:08:20.626Z
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- referenced_byPequod's Owners
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- associated with
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- Let the owners stand on Nantucket beach
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- extracted_at
- 2026-03-02T00:08:22.075Z
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