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Timor Tom or ‘’’Old Tom’’’ is a sperm whale from the 19th century, referenced in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. The only reference in the book is: Was it not so, O Timor Tom! thou famed leviathan, scarred like an iceberg, who so long did'st lurk in the Oriental straits of that name, whose spout was oft seen from the palmy beach of Ombay? — Ishmael, in Herman Melville, "Chapter 45: The Affidavit", Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale (18 October 1851) may reference the island of Pantar, across the Ombai Strait from Timor.

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  • Timor Tom or ‘’’Old Tom’’’ is a sperm whale from the 19th century, referenced in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. The only reference in the book is: Was it not so, O Timor Tom! thou famed leviathan, scarred like an iceberg, who so long did'st lurk in the Oriental straits of that name, whose spout was oft seen from the palmy beach of Ombay? — Ishmael, in Herman Melville, "Chapter 45: The Affidavit", Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale (18 October 1851) may reference the island of Pantar, across the Ombai Strait from Timor. Dr. Lawrence Blair in his TV program Myths Magic and Monsters, suggests that Timor Tom was a gigantic albino sperm whale, who did not flee whalers, but attacked them and drowned many of them instead. (en)
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  • Herman Melville (en)
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  • Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale (en)
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  • Was it not so, O Timor Tom! thou famed leviathan, scarred like an iceberg, who so long did'st lurk in the Oriental straits of that name, whose spout was oft seen from the palmy beach of Ombay? (en)
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  • "Chapter 45: The Affidavit" (en)
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  • Timor Tom or ‘’’Old Tom’’’ is a sperm whale from the 19th century, referenced in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. The only reference in the book is: Was it not so, O Timor Tom! thou famed leviathan, scarred like an iceberg, who so long did'st lurk in the Oriental straits of that name, whose spout was oft seen from the palmy beach of Ombay? — Ishmael, in Herman Melville, "Chapter 45: The Affidavit", Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale (18 October 1851) may reference the island of Pantar, across the Ombai Strait from Timor. (en)
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  • Timor Tom (en)
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