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