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Today, whaling remains part of the cultures of [[Japan]], [[Norway]] and [[Iceland]], and in addition some aboriginal communities also hunt whales.
Today, whaling remains part of the cultures of [[Japan]], [[Norway]] and [[Iceland]], and in addition some aboriginal communities also hunt whales.
==History, Spain, Norway and Iceland==
==History, Spain, Norway and Iceland==
[[File:Dutch whalers near Spitsbergen.jpg|thumb|Abraham Storck, Dutch whalers near Spitsbergen.]]
By 1650 Europeans had already been whaling for the better part of a thousand years, with hunters from the Basque region of northern Spain taking the lead.
By 1650 Europeans had already been whaling for the better part of a thousand years, with hunters from the Basque region of northern Spain taking the lead.