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News from the Falklands September 1997
It is presumed that he was carried there either from the Falklands or the South ...
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Ocean Alliance - FAQ - Voyage of the Odyssey
... sure what to expect when we arrived, as nobody had looked for whales since the whaling station closed down, but we are happy to report that we found many whales here, including ...
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Ocean Alliance - VOYAGE OF THE ODYSSEY
Albany community into preserving the retired whaling station, and converting it into a whale museum." Read more >> Listen to the Odyssey log: Real ... the same reason to hunt right whales, humpback whales and sperm whales. The last working whaling station [in Australia] only closed in Albany in 1978. This vast natural harbor on the remote ...
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Whales - History
The whaling station set up by the South Australia Company at Encounter Bay closed. 1931 Protected in South Australia. 1935 Internationally protected through the League of Nations. 1978 All whaling in Australian waters ceased, the last whaling station (for Sperm Whales) being in Albany, Western Australia. 1990s Great ...
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From Ranchos to Rockets
Americanization Period. The Cojo Landing whaling station operated from 1879-1886. Santa Barbara County’s vast petroleum reserves helped replace whale ... in the early 20th Century. The Coast Guard constructed the Point Arguello Lifeboat Rescue Station in 1936 using federal funding available during President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal programs. ...
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Whaling
Whaling Back Next Extractive industry is a strong theme on the study area. This team is flensing a whale at Cojo Landing where a whaling station operated from 1879-1886.
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Whales for Foxes from Artic Circle
Russia, the air stinks of rotten meat this summer day of August 1991. On the beach, just beyond the weathered whaling station ... whale oil, processed in an officially "non-existent" shore-based whaling station. But only a tiny portion of the meat from ... it has never sent officials to Chukotka to inspect the whaling operation there. Even Greenpeace, which in the mid-1980s launched ...
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Letters - 40 onwards 25/6/97 to ?
Wilderness Society, believe there is no longer any place for native forest logging. Just as whaling is a socially unacceptable way to provide jobs and just as there are alternatives to ... taxpayers' money. Boosting the growing tourism industry would be another positive step. Closing the Albany whaling station in Western Australia was a controversial move 20 years ago, but we wonder now why ...
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Suggested Readings
Ottawa: Archaeological Survey of Canada. National Museum of Man. 1982 A sixteenth century whaling station at Red Bay , Labrador. In Early European Settlement and Exploitation in Atlantic Canada, ... of Newfoundland and Labrador. Tuck, James, and Robert Grenier 1989 Red Bay, Labrador: World Whaling Capital (1550-1600). St. John's, Newfoundland: Atlantic Archaeology. Turgeon, Laurier 1996 Chronological ...
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Whaling from US West Coast?
At the UNCED Conference in Rio, the Inuit Circumpolar Conference distributed the booklet "Inuit Whaling" which contained an article by the Danish environmental journalist, Erik Sander, which had earlier appeared ... in fifty-gallon cans as whale oil, processed in an officially "non-existent" shore-based whaling station. But only a tiny portion of the meat from the thirty-ton greys is used ...
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