nordcaperEtymologyBorrowing from Dutch, a reference to the North Cape in Finnmark, Norway, where most of these whales were found by Dutch and Norwegian whalers.nordcaper means A type of baleen whale from the North Atlantic (Balaena mysticetus or Balaena biscayensis). Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 94 out of 100.nounA type of baleen whale from the North Atlantic (Balaena mysticetus or Balaena biscayensis).“Besides the “Nordcapers,” the voyagers one day fell in with another species of dolphin, three or four of which gambolled under the Germania's bows.”