Grytviken Whaling Station

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1. Story
2. 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 December that year. It operated until 1965, first under the Compania Argentina de Pesca and later under Albion Star. It is the place where the numbers in this Journey were physically produced: carcasses were flensed, measured and entered in station books, and the longest blue whale on record is associated with this station. That measurement is also where the sources retrieved disagree - one gives 1909 at a South Georgia station, another says the animal was processed at Grytviken around 1912.
3. Knowledge
4. South Georgia
5. Grytviken Whaling Station
6. Connections
7. South Georgia
8. Stern-Slipway Pelagic Factory Ship
9. Whaling begins at Grytviken, South Georgia
10. The longest blue whale on record is measured at South Georgia
11. Whaling ends at South Georgia
12. Antarctic Summer Feeding Migration
13. Southern Ocean
14. Grytviken Whaling Station
15. Whaling begins at Grytviken, South Georgia
16. Whaling ends at South Georgia
17. Blue whales are found back at South Georgia
18. An individual Antarctic blue whale is re-sighted at South Georgia
19. Evidence
20. 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.
21. 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.