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A sub-Antarctic island in the South Atlantic, about 165 km long, that was the centre of Southern Hemisphere land-based whaling and is now one of the clearest recovery signals for the…
-54.4, -36.7 · approximate · whaling 1904-1971; survey series 1998-2020
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- A place in: Blue Whale Migration · 3 places
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- adjacent to Southern Ocean — South Georgia is a sub-Antarctic South Atlantic island at the northern margin of the Southern Ocean system; whether it lies inside the Southern Ocean depends on which boundary definition is used.
- is located in of Grytviken Whaling Station — Grytviken is a station site on the north coast of South Georgia.
- is passes through of Antarctic Summer Feeding Migration — The 2020 survey and rising acoustic detections show South Georgia waters being used again as part of the Antarctic feeding range.
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