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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 ...
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 .
Deception Island map with the topography and the location of the stations and protected zones. Deception Island is in the South Shetland Islands close to the Antarctic Peninsula with a large and usually "safe" natural harbor, which is occasionally affected by the underlying active volcano.
Managers and other senior officers of the whaling stations often had their families living together with them. Among them was Fridthjof Jacobsen whose wife Klara Olette Jacobsen gave birth to two of their children in Grytviken; their daughter Solveig Gunbjørg Jacobsen was the first child ever born and raised south of the Antarctic Convergence ...
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.
Port Jeanne d'Arc is a former whaling station founded by a Norwegian whaling company in 1908, and a former geomagnetic station, and lies in the northwestern corner of Presqu'île Jeanne d'Arc, looking across the Buenos Aires passage to Île Longue (4 km or 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 mi northeast). The derelict settlement consists of four residential buildings ...
Signy was first occupied in 1947 when a three-man meteorological station was established in Factory Cove above the old whaling station. [3] [2] It was the second research base on the South Orkney Islands (after the Argentine Orcadas Base in 1903). In 1955, a new hut, Tønsberg House was built on the site of the whaling station.
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.