The Whale Culture In The Pacific

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Join the journey tracing the origins of whale culture, from Greenland's east coast across the Arctic and down to the Aleutian Islands. Discover how this culture took root in the Pacific, shaping a unique way of life centered around hunting from the ice-covered ocean.

Exploring the beginnings and spread of whale culture across the Pacific and its eventual decline.

The search for where whale culture began leads from early findings on Greenland’s east coast, across the Arctic Ocean, and down through the Bering Sea to the Aleutian Islands. Evidence points to its origin in the Pacific, bringing attention to Japan and the Yonaguni monument.

It becomes clear that whale culture started with hunter-gatherers living on the Eurasian Mammoth step. These groups began hunting seals and whales in the Sea of Japan before moving over to Japan itself. There, their culture adapted to the abundant hunting grounds of the Pacific during the ice age.

The plentiful game allowed them to thrive, developing a distinctive culture where they lived and hunted from the ocean’s ice cover. Following their path from Japan across the Pacific, evidence found in Hawaii leads to a detour to Kiritimati.

At Kiritimati, specific ocean currents during the ice age created a massive ice continent in the Pacific. Rich waters surrounded this ice land to the north and south, where the whale culture built a civilization believed to be the true lost continent of Mu. From Mu, the whale culture could traverse the entire Pacific in airships made from whale skin and bone.

The journey continues to Tahiti and New Caledonia, uncovering the ocean current conditions that formed Mu’s ice continent and how their collapse triggered the decline of whale culture in the Pacific.

Finally, the trail leads to New Zealand, where the whale culture attempts to adjust to the loss of sea ice by moving south toward Antarctica, before eventually fading away.

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