Whaling begins at Grytviken, South Georgia
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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.
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- Grytviken Whaling Stationconcerns
- South Georgiaconcerns
- Antarctic Blue Whale (B. m. intermedia)concerns
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