On September 13th 1909, 100 years ago, the “SS Starlight” arrived at South Georgia with men and materials to erect a shore whaling station. Her destination was a cove in Stromness Bay which ...

By 1904, the first land-based whaling station at South Georgia was set up in Grytviken. Whaling became a major activity at the island -- from 1904 to 1965, about 175,250 whales were processed there.

commercial whaling came to South Georgia. Carl Larsen pioneered shore-based facilities to process their catch. The industry thrived and whaling stations grew from a cluster of a few buildings to ...

Then, early in the 20th century, with the invention of fast, steam-powered catcher boats and explosive harpoons, they built whaling stations on South Georgia and turned their attention to the big ...

I had stayed down in South Georgia to work through the winter ... There was an annual ski competition between all the whaling stations. I had learnt to ski but I took my hat off to the guys ...

But before the abandoned whaling stations have even rusted away, whales have begun returning to South Georgia in large numbers. A campaign of air-dropping poisoned bait across the inaccessible ...

The harpooned whales of South Georgia met a brutal fate: winched onto boats then dumped on land, they were dragged to industrial whaling stations and systematically butchered. Between 1904 and ...

This first painting is the Southern Venturer at Leith Harbour Whaling Station in November 1961 ... to several whaling museums in the USA, South Georgia, Norway and the Shetland Islands and ...

From a wider conservation point of view, South Georgia is one of the world's stand-out success stories. Until the 1960s, it was a major hub for whaling. Thousands of whales were caught off its coasts ...