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Close ✕Grytviken Whaling Station
The first shore whaling station on South Georgia, established by Carl Anton Larsen in 1904 - whaling began there on 16 November 1904 and the whale-oil factory started production on 24…
-54.3, -36.5 · approximate · 1904-1965
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- A place in: Blue Whale Migration · 3 places
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- located in South Georgia — Grytviken is a station site on the north coast of South Georgia.
- is superseded of Stern-Slipway Pelagic Factory Ship — Pelagic processing removed the need to tow carcasses to a shore station, and South Georgia's stations closed while the Antarctic pelagic fleet continued.
Mission history61 missions · 1959 → 2026 · 2 planned
1145 objects · 280 located (1 withheld pending verification) · 865 unlocated · No relief basemap · marks drawn only from sourced coordinates