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whaling station. A place where the carcases of whales were processed.... Click for English pronunciations, examples sentences, video.
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Whaling was a major maritime industry in Australia from 1791 until its final cessation in 1978. At least 45 whaling stations operated in Tasmania during the 19th century, and bay whaling was conducted out of other mainland centres.
11 Οκτ 2024 · Whaling, the hunting of whales for food and oil. Although once widely conducted, whaling has declined since the mid-20th century, when whale populations began to drop catastrophically. Learn more about the history and process of whaling as well as opposition to it.
8 Ιουλ 2024 · By 1920, about the peak of shore-based whaling in the Antarctic, there were seven stations on South Georgia as well as a single station in the Sub-Antarctic Kerguelen Island and one each in the Antarctic South Shetland and South Orkney islands.
This article discusses the history of whaling from prehistoric times up to the commencement of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) moratorium on commercial whaling in 1986. Whaling has been an important subsistence and economic activity in multiple regions throughout human history.
22 Ιουν 2013 · Situated in Labrador, in north-eastern Canada, on the shores of the Strait of Belle Isle, Red Bay was an Arctic maritime base for Basque mariners in the 16th century. It is the earliest, most comprehensive and best preserved archaeological testimony of a pre-industrial whaling station.
In 1911, a whaling station using steam driven vessels and new explosive harpoon technology was established in Tory Strait by an Italian immigrant family, the Peranos, to hunt humpback whales. Hunting continued until 1963, when stocks collapsed.
