Whaling begins at Grytviken, South Georgia

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1. Story
2. Carl Anton Larsen establishes the first shore whaling station on South Georgia. Whaling begins on 16 November 1904 and the whale-oil factory starts production on 24 December. For the next two decades South Georgia is the principal base for land-based whaling in the Southern Hemisphere, and the Southern Ocean blue whale population begins to be worked systematically for the first time.
3. Knowledge
4. Antarctic Blue Whale (B. m. intermedia)
5. South Georgia
6. Grytviken Whaling Station
7. Whaling begins at Grytviken, South Georgia
8. Connections
9. Grytviken Whaling Station
10. South Georgia
11. Antarctic Blue Whale (B. m. intermedia)
12. South Georgia
13. Stern-Slipway Pelagic Factory Ship
14. Whaling begins at Grytviken, South Georgia
15. The longest blue whale on record is measured at South Georgia
16. Whaling ends at South Georgia
17. Antarctic Summer Feeding Migration
18. Southern Ocean
19. Grytviken Whaling Station
20. Whaling begins at Grytviken, South Georgia
21. Whaling ends at South Georgia
22. Blue whales are found back at South Georgia
23. An individual Antarctic blue whale is re-sighted at South Georgia
24. Southern Ocean
25. Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus)
26. IWC Southern Ocean Research Partnership
27. Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources
28. Whaling begins at Grytviken, South Georgia
29. The Antarctic blue whale catch reaches its all-time peak
30. The heaviest blue whale on record is weighed
31. Soviet fleets take protected whales and file false returns
32. The IWC protects blue whales from commercial hunting
33. Whaling ends at South Georgia
34. The commercial whaling moratorium takes effect
35. Dedicated Antarctic Blue Whale Project voyages
36. Blue whales are found back at South Georgia
37. The only published Antarctic blue whale satellite tracks are released as data
38. A capture-recapture abundance estimate for Antarctic blue whales is published
39. An individual Antarctic blue whale is re-sighted at South Georgia
40. Evidence
41. The first shore whaling station on South Georgia was established by Carl Anton Larsen at Grytviken in 1904; whaling began there on 16 November 1904 and the whale-oil factory started production on 24 December 1904. Grytviken operated until 1965, first under the Compania Argentina de Pesca and later under Albion Star, and during this period South Georgia was the principal location for land-based whaling in the Southern Hemisphere. V55 verification basis: retrieved in search summary attributed to the territorial government and museum records; neither page was fetched.