MercoPress15y
South Georgia’s whaling history to the prelude of the Falklands conflict (*)
His son Theodore took the company to the South Atlantic, whaling ... practice at Grytviken. Leith Harbour survived the overproduction crisis of 1931, which forced some other land stations to ...
BBC10y
A glimpse into the world of British whaling in the 1950s
The flags are the Norwegian flag, the Union Jack, and the Argentinian flag: because Grytviken whaling station was operated by an Argentine company, though almost all the managers and whalers were ...
heraldscotland20d
Slaughtered by the thousands: Scotland's role in whaling shame
Today Grytviken's former whaling station on South Georgia - the only one open to visitors - has been likened to an industrial scrapyard: beached and broken ships litter the shoreline, rusting ...
MercoPress1y
The Grytviken Church in South Georgia will celebrate 110 years this Christmas
An inside detail of the Whalers' Church, over a century old When the island of South Georgia was a booming whaling station, in the roaring forties, more than a century ago, Grytviken received what ...
heraldscotland20d
Slaughtered by the thousands: Scotland's role in whaling shame
Today Grytviken's former whaling station on South Georgia - the only one open to visitors - has been likened to an industrial scrapyard: beached and broken ships litter the shoreline, rusting tanks ...