Perano, Joseph August- Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
Perano, Joseph August- Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
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| Title | Perano, Joseph August- Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand |
|---|---|
| Author | Don Grady |
| Year | 1996 |
| Publication | Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand, first published in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography in 1996 |
| Language | English |
| Geographic reference | Picton, Cook Strait |
| Time reference | 1870ss to1960s |
| Online resource | YES |
| Topic | Italian fishermen, Italian whalers, Perano family, liguri in Nuova Zelanda, Ligurian immigrants |
A short biography, written by Don Grady and first published in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography in 1996. Joseph August (Joe) Perano was born at Dunedin on 10 October 1876, the third of eleven children of Agostino Perano and his wife, Susan Williams. Joe started whaling in 1911 and was the founder of New Zealand's last whaling station and last whaling enterprise. He was credited with many modern innovations to the New Zealand whaling industry, He died in 1951, at the age of 74, but the family's whaling business continued out of Tory Channel for 53 years. The last whale caught for J. A. Perano and Company, was also the last whale killed in New Zealand waters from a New Zealand ship, ending more than 170 years of New Zealand whaling. Perano Head, a steep jutting headland that rises like a sentinel over Cook Strait where Joe Perano and two of his sons whaled for more than half a century, was named after them.
A 1918 photo of Joe Perano, standing inside the mouth of a whale at Tipi Bay, Cook Strait is available in the archives of the National Library,
More about the Perano family:
Memories of the Perano Family
Getting the family back together ... all 1000 of them
The Perano whalers of Cook Strait, 1911-1964
