The longest blue whale on record is measured at South Georgia

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1. Story
2. A female blue whale measuring 33.58 m is recorded at a South Georgia whaling station - the longest individual of any animal reliably measured. The sources retrieved for this pack disagree on the circumstances: one gives 1909 at a South Georgia station, another says the animal was processed at Grytviken around 1912. The disagreement is left standing here rather than resolved, because the station measurement books were not consulted.
3. Knowledge
4. Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus)
5. Grytviken Whaling Station
6. The longest blue whale on record is measured at South Georgia
7. Connections
8. Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus)
9. Grytviken Whaling Station
10. Antarctic Krill (Euphausia superba)
11. Rorqual Lunge Feeding
12. Antarctic Blue Whale (B. m. intermedia)
13. Pygmy Blue Whale (B. m. brevicauda)
14. Northern Indian Ocean Blue Whale (putative B. m. indica)
15. Fin Whale (Balaenoptera physalus)
16. Whale-Mediated Iron Recycling
17. Vessel Collision with Large Whales
18. The longest blue whale on record is measured at South Georgia
19. The heaviest blue whale on record is weighed
20. The IWC protects blue whales from commercial hunting
21. The commercial whaling moratorium takes effect
22. Blue whale song frequencies are observed falling worldwide
23. The energetics of blue whale lunge feeding are modelled
24. Baleen whale consumption is re-measured, and the krill paradox sharpens
25. South Georgia
26. Stern-Slipway Pelagic Factory Ship
27. Whaling begins at Grytviken, South Georgia
28. The longest blue whale on record is measured at South Georgia
29. Whaling ends at South Georgia
30. Evidence
31. The longest blue whale on record is a female measured at a South Georgia whaling station at 33.58 m; the heaviest is a separate female taken in the Southern Ocean on 20 March 1947 at 190 tonnes. V55 verification basis: retrieved in search summary attributed to Guinness World Records; the entries were not fetched, and the sources retrieved disagree on whether the length record dates from 1909 or c.1912 - the disagreement is preserved rather than resolved.