Whale hunting has been Lamalera’s tradition for generations. Lamalera villagers usually perform a traditional ritual before waging the hunt, which starts on a local Batu Paus site. One of the boats, ...

For the documentary series Hunters of the South Seas, writer and explorer Will Millard headed to the Indonesian village of Lamalera where the people have survived for centuries by hunting whales.

Harpooners on a traditional whale-hunting boat drag a captured shark into the boat near the island of Lamalera in Indonesia's East Nusa Tenggara Province, Oct. 30, 2012. The decrease of whale ...

Lamalera: a remote village of 2 500 people on the southern coast of Indonesia. In this hostile land where nothing grows, people have managed to survive only thanks to a spectacular age-old hunt ...