Whaling ends at South Georgia

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1. Story
2. Grytviken closes in 1965 after sixty-one years of operation. Accounts of South Georgia whaling as a whole give the industrial period as 1904-1971, over which 42,698 blue whales were killed there. What follows is near-silence: more than 34,000 km of systematic survey effort between 1998 and 2018 yields a single blue whale sighting.
3. Knowledge
4. Antarctic Blue Whale (B. m. intermedia)
5. South Georgia
6. Grytviken Whaling Station
7. Whaling ends at 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.
42. Industrial whaling off South Georgia between 1904 and 1971 killed 42,698 blue whales there; more than 34,000 km of systematic survey between 1998 and 2018 produced only a single blue whale sighting; a 2020 survey using visual line transects and DIFAR sonobuoys produced 58 blue whale sightings from 2,430 km of visual effort with 23 individuals photo-identified, and 41 individuals were photo-identified from South Georgia in total between 2011 and 2020. V55 verification basis: these figures were returned in the search result carrying the journal abstract and attributed to this paper.