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The Nomination files produced by the States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to ...

This first painting is the Southern Venturer at Leith Harbour Whaling Station in November 1961. I worked on the Southern Venturer this season — the last that Edinburgh-based Christian Salvesen ...

Salvesen's ceased operations at Leith Harbour in the 1961/2 season but the station was sub-leased to a Japanese company which operated until December 15th 1965. This was the end of whaling at ...

The last working whaling station [in Australia] only closed in Albany in 1978. This vast natural harbor on the remote southern coast of Western Australia has a rich and sometimes violent maritime ...

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 ...

SHIMONOSEKI, Yamaguchi Prefecture--The aging Nisshin Maru, a relic of Japan’s whaling tradition, has finally retired after playing a central role in research and commercial operations for more ...

Other images include divers getting ready alongside their rafts and their equipment to make repairs, other whalers as well as scenes of the way of life at the Antarctic whaling stations.' ...

a climate campaigner and director of a documentary called “The Last Whaling Station.” Humane Society International (HSI), an animal welfare advocacy group, condemned the move as a ...