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Hektor Station under construction (1912). In 1911, the government of the Falkland Islands Dependencies granted the Hektor Whaling Company (based in Tønsberg, Norway) a license to establish a whaling station on the coast of Deception Island. The purpose of the factory, which was built in 1912 on 500 acres of land, was to more efficiently ...
Grytviken is a popular stop for cruise ships visiting Antarctica, and tourists usually land to visit Shackleton's grave. The South Georgia Museum is housed in the manager's house of the former whaling station, and is open during the summer tourist season.
The United States maintains the southernmost base, Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station, and the largest base and research station in Antarctica, McMurdo Station. The second-southernmost base is the Chinese Kunlun Station at 80°25′2″S during the summer season, and the Russian Vostok Station at 78°27′50″S during the winter season.
The island previously held a whaling station. It is now a tourist destination with over 15,000 visitors per year. [citation needed] Two research stations are operated by Argentina and Spain during the summer season. [2] While various countries have asserted sovereignty, it is still administered under the Antarctic Treaty System.
Whaling stations of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (7 P) Pages in category "Whaling in Antarctica" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
Remains from the Norwegian whaling station in Whalers Bay A blue whale being flensed at Whalers Bay. 1920s painting by Carl Dørnberger. Whalers Bay is a small bay entered between Fildes Point and Penfold Point at the east side of Port Foster, Deception Island, in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica.
Gan, I, Towards the great unknown: the Soviets prepare for their thrust into the Antarctic interior, National and transnational agendas in Antarctic Research from the 1950s and beyond. Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop of the SCAR Action Group on the History of Antarctic Research, BPRC Technical report no. 2011-01, Byrd Polar Research Centre ...
Larsen is also considered the founder of the Antarctic whaling industry and the settlement and whaling station of Grytviken, South Georgia. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The peaks and mountain crests surrounding the almost land-locked harbour was described by Sir Ernest Shackleton's photographer Frank Hurley as "most beautiful and exceeding all in grandeur ...