
diary “Sir James Clark Ross” – 22.02.1933
Flanged 3 blue whale. Now we lack certain just a few whales, due to be launched today. The boats have been with "Cosmos 2" and received fuel oil, so it is ready to depart.
– Øivind Schau
Flanged 3 blue whale. Now we lack certain just a few whales, due to be launched today. The boats have been with "Cosmos 2" and received fuel oil, so it is ready to depart.
– Øivind Schau
Flanging of fin whales in Grytviken.
Photo: Leif Brandt
Year: 1950.
Large baleen whale Thorshammers blubber.
Photo: Harald Werner
A fin whale is the blubber on the factory ship Sir James Clark Ross once in the 1950s.
Photographer: Oddbjørn Huseby
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Towards the end of whaling, it may seem as if the industry in many cases were kept artificially alive. This sperm whale cow was slaughtered to produce pet food. It is quite obvious that this was neither economically or ecologically sustainable.
Photo: phra ajahn ekaggata/Terry Milligan (holder of copyright)
Year: 1969
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A baleen whale is the blubber aboard Flk Norhval.
Photo: Martin Seierstad
Work on blubber on Nederlands floating factory William Barendsz (II) in season 1958/59.
Photo: Abraham Jansen
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Overview Picture taken by fleseplan in Leith Harbor in 1925.
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In 70 foot-long fin whale blubber on in Grytviken. A flanges has climbed whale to cut around the cranks while another has incised abdomen. Behind, on bone attic, cut one up shells from other whales with steam saws.
Photographer: Nigel Bonner
Courtesy of Jenny Bonner.
Thanks to Sarah Lurcock at the museum at Grytviken on South Georgia for the original caption to this slide.
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Olav Reidar Hansen Wiik job on blubber on space IV. The Norwegian flensekniven is clearly visible.
The picture was taken sometime between 1950 and 1957.
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