Seal hunting

Pinnipeds (pronounced ), commonly known as seals, are a widely distributed and diverse clade of carnivorous, fin-footed, semiaquatic, mostly marine mammals. They comprise the extant families Odobenidae (whose only living member is the walrus), Otariidae (the eared seals: sea lions and fur seals), and Phocidae (the earless seals, or true seals), with 34 extant species and more than 50 extinct species described from fossils. While seals were historically thought to have descended from two ancestral lines, molecular evidence supports them as a monophyletic group (descended from one ancestor). Pin

Norwegian uninhabited subantarctic volcanic island

Australian external territory and volcanic group of barren Antarctic islands

archipelago in the southern Indian Ocean, and one of the districts of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands

sub-Antarctic island of Australia

islands in the southern Indian Ocean

island in South Australia

district of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands, archipelago in the southern Indian Ocean

archipelago in the Southern Ocean

group of islands in the Southern Ocean

island in the southern Indian Ocean

group of subantarctic islands that are part of New Zealand

island in the South Atlantic

island in the South Atlantic

sub-Antarctic islands belonging to South Africa

island of the South Shetland Islands

island between mainland Australia and Tasmania

island of the South Shetland Islands

Antarctic island

island in New Zealand

island group in Tasmania, Australia

island off the eastern Tasmanian coast

hunting of seals

peninsula that forms the southernmost part of the Australian mainland and is located in the state of Victoria

island of the Falkland Islands

town in Victoria, Australia

island in Tasmania, Australia

group of the South Shetland Islands

island of the South Shetland Islands

island in Tasmania, Australia

island in Antarctica

A hakapik () is a club, of Norwegian design, similar to a fishing gaff, used for killing and moving seals. The hakapik is a multipurpose hunting tool—a heavy wooden club, with a hammer head (used to crush a seal's skull), and a hook (used to drag the carcass) on the end.

Arnarulunnguaq ( ; 1896 – 2 October 1933), a Native Greenlander, was a key member of Knud Rasmussen's Fifth Thule Expedition (1921–1924) which crossed the Northwest Passage by dog sled. She was one of the two who accompanied Rasmussen from the Hudson Bay to Alaska, preparing meals and keeping skins and furs in order throughout the two-year journey. As a result, she was the first woman to complete the long Arctic journey from Greenland to the Pacific.

island off the western coast of the Eyre Peninsula, South Australia

island off eastern Tasmania

bay in Victoria, Australia

town in South Australia

island in Bass Strait, Tasmania, Australia

Inuit lawyer, activist and fashion designer

island in Tasmania, Australia

thumb|Ringed seal skin thumb|Anti-sealskin cartoon by J. M. Staniforth (1899). Sealskin is the skin of a seal.

group of islands in Tasmania, Australia

island in South Australia, Australia

mountain in Australia

island in Tasmania Australia

island in Tasmania, Australia

island in Victoria, Australia

point in Tasmania, Australia