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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. The bay was so named by the French Antarctic Expedition , 1908–10, under Charcot, because of its use at that time by whalers .
Telefon Bay Looking WSW from the center of the caldera. Located within the Bransfield Strait, the island is roughly circular and horseshoe-shaped, with a maximum diameter around 15 km (9.3 mi). The highest peak, Mount Pond on the east side of the island, has an elevation of 539 m (1,768 ft), while Mount Kirkwood on the west has an elevation of ...
Whaler's Bay is located where the word Svalbard is written in this figure. Whaler's Bay is a bay in Svalbard in the Arctic Ocean . The former whaling grounds to the north of Nordaustlandet (roughly 81°N 10°E / 81°N 10°E / 81; 10 ( Whaler's Bay, Arctic Ocean ) ), the second largest island of the Svalbard archipelago are ...
Paradise Harbour) is a wide embayment behind Lemaire Island and Bryde Island, indenting the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica, between Duthiers Point and Leniz The name was first applied by whalers operating in the vicinity and was in use by 1920.
Whale Cove, south of Depoe Bay, Oregon, colorized aerial photograph The Jonucus Hondius map of 1589 of Drake's New Albion cove Whale Cove is a small cove , approximately one-third of a mile (0.5 km) in diameter, located on the Pacific Coast of Oregon in the United States , approximately 1.4 mi (2.3 km) south of the city of Depoe Bay . [ 1 ]
At the beginning of World War II, a U.S. Army Coastal Defense Squad used the Whalers Cabin at Whaler's Cove for its headquarters. From 1942 to 1944, the cove was the site of a 4th Air Force Long-Range Radar site. Tents were set up to accommodate 90 men below Rat Hill.
The whaling settlement at Pauline Cove. The Yukon mainland is visible in the background. In the late 19th century, whalers discovered that the Beaufort Sea was one of the last refuges of the depleted bowhead whale, which was prized for its baleen (whalebone), blubber, and oil. Commercial bowhead hunting in the area began in 1889.
The publication of Cook’s First Voyage put Ship Cove on the world map, drawing whalers and other explorers to it. By 1810, whalers had called in there. People from Anaho, a bay just to the north, were in close contact with whalers. [5] They helped the visitors and some would convert to Christianity. [10] and learned to read and write. [5]