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Seven relic whaling stations remain on South Georgia, mostly off-limits due to dangerous structures and asbestos. We hike between two of them – from Leith to Stromness ...
The first whaling vessels arrived just as the last sealers retreated, and between 1904 and 1965, 175,250 whales were processed in seven whaling facilities in South Georgia.
The Whalers’ Memory Bank brings together new and lost stories of Scottish whalers and their intrepid adventures on South Georgia island.
The whaling station at South Georgia has also become the focus for a different kind of industry: tourism is growing. “Ship numbers to South Georgia have increased dramatically.
South Georgia is a remote island about 800 miles southeast of the Falkland Islands and home to several whaling stations operating from the turn of the century through the 1960s.
South Georgia is a remote island about 800 miles southeast of the Falkland Islands and home to several whaling stations operating from the turn of the century through the 1960s.
The South Georgia pipit, the world's most southerly songbird, was driven to the brink of extinction. But before the abandoned whaling stations have even rusted away, whales have begun returning to ...
NEWPORT, Ore. (KTVZ) – Commercial whaling in the 20th century decimated populations of large whales but also appears to have had a lasting impact on the genetic diversity of today’s surviving ...
The harpooned whales of South Georgia met a brutal fate: winched onto boats then dumped on land, they were dragged to industrial whaling stations and systematically butchered. Between 1904 and ...