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The Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary is adopted

The IWC designates about 50 million square kilometres around Antarctica as a sanctuary in which commercial whaling is prohibited, by 23 votes in favour with Japan opposed. The northern boundary runs along 40°S, except at 55°S in the Indian Ocean sector and 60°S around South America and into the South Pacific. The designation is reviewed every ten years.

Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.

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Evidence

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Recorded on Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary

  1. The factory ship Lancing takes a stern slipway south
  2. The Antarctic blue whale catch reaches its all-time peak
  3. The International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling is signed
  4. Soviet fleets take protected whales and file false returns
  5. The IWC protects blue whales from commercial hunting
  6. CCAMLR is agreed at Canberra
  7. The IWC adopts the commercial whaling moratorium
  8. The commercial whaling moratorium takes effect
  9. The Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary is adopted
  10. The true scale of Soviet whaling is published
  11. A long-term decline in krill density is linked to winter sea ice
  12. Dedicated Antarctic Blue Whale Project voyages
  13. CCAMLR adopts the Ross Sea marine protected area
  14. Baleen whale consumption is re-measured, and the krill paradox sharpens
  15. The only published Antarctic blue whale satellite tracks are released as data
  16. Antarctic sea ice reaches a record low, a year after the previous one
  17. Antarctic meltwater is projected to slow the abyssal cell
  18. A physics-based early warning signal is proposed

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