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Plettenberg Bay, nicknamed Plett, [2] is the primary town of the Bitou Local Municipality in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. According to the census of 2001, the town had a population of 29,149.
Dawson and Douglass founded Whaletown in 1869 as a whaling station on Cortes Island. [4] The Whaletown operation was later moved to what is now called Whaling Station Bay on Hornby Island; the Dawson and Douglass Company merged with the Lipsett Whaling Company to form the British Columbia Whaling Company, but the company closed in 1871. [4]
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.
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The Whaling Station Við Áir on Streymoy, Faroe Islands, is the only Norwegian built whaling station in the northern hemisphere still standing. It is being renovated into a museum. Whaling stations in the Faroe Islands have included Gjánoyri on Streymoy (est. 1894), [ 79 ] Norðdepil on Borðoy (1898–1920), Lopra on Suðuroy (1901–1953 ...
At least 45 whaling stations operated in Tasmania during the 19th century, and bay whaling was conducted out of other mainland centres. Modern whaling using harpoon guns and iron hulled catchers was conducted in the 20th century from shore-based stations in Western Australia, South Australia, New South Wales and Queensland, also in Norfolk ...
Bun Abhainn Eadarra is notable for containing the remains of an historic whaling station which was founded by a Norwegian, Carl Herlofsen, in 1904. [4] The company was operational until 1914 and again from 1918 to 1922, when it was bought by Lever Brothers, the company founded and run by William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme, the Isle of Lewis's proprietor. [5]
The Whaling Station had previously shut down when whales became endangered and laws were enacted forbidding their hunting. In 1916, Ernest Shackleton and a small crew landed on the unpopulated southern coast of South Georgia at King Haakon Bay after an arduous sea voyage from Elephant Island in the 22-foot (6.7 m) lifeboat, James Caird.