Back in the early '90s, my wife, children and I lived in the picturesque and historical Sydney suburb of Mosman . . . well, historical by white-settler Australian standards.
Mosman is named after one Archibald Mosman, a Scot who, in the 1830s, migrated to Australia and established a whaling station at what is now Mosman Bay. I am the proud owner of an official Municipality of Mosman necktie, which boasts smiling, gold-embroidered whales frolicking in its weave. Whales also figure on the Mosman coat of arms.
Although Australia was once a major whaling nation, it ceased hunting the world's largest mammals some 30 years ago and is now at the forefront of the campaign to get Japan to follow its example.