Whaling in the Antarctic |
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CHAP PAGE I BRIEF OUTLINE OF THE HISTORY OF OLDTIME WHALING | 1 |
FOUNDATION OF MODERN WHALING | 13 |
MODERN WHALING SOME PROBLEMS | 24 |
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abundant animal Antarctic appears baleen barrels beach berg blow blubber Blue Whale boats body boiler bones breeding Cape Anna Cape Horn Cape Pigeon carried catch caught chase coal colour common crew Deception Island deck distance dive eggs fact feeding feet Fin Whale floating factory glaciers Graham Land gunner harbour harpoon Hump-back hunting immense industry killed known land length mass matter meat miles modern whaling nest Norwegians numbers occasional once outfit pack-ice penguins perhaps petrels portion possible probably rare realised regions result Right Whales rocks rookery Rorquals seals season seen Sei Whale ship factory shore station sight skua snow soon South Georgia South Orkney Islands South Shetlands Southern Ocean species speed Sperm Whale spot steam whaler steamers surface Svend Foyn tail taken tion to-day usually warmer weather Weddell Sea whaling ships whaling station