Whale meat was available as an alternative to beef, pork and chicken at a time when food rationing was ... of the way of life at the Antarctic whaling stations.' Auctioneer Charles Miller added ...

The men just had time to save some of the provisions and regroup in three small whaling boats before their ... the captain’s 18-year-old cousin. The young man resigned himself to his grisly ...

"But it wasn't long after that the populations of the North Atlantic right whales were almost completely eliminated through whaling, and all the old individuals would have gone at that time too ...

I bought it the first time I went down to South Georgia — to work as an electrician for Christian Salvesen, Britain's biggest whaling company. I was employed first at Leith Harbour on South ...