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 ...

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 ...

This must have been the 1957 winter. There was an annual ski competition between all the whaling stations. I had learnt to ski but I took my hat off to the guys who were brave enough to try ski ...

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 ...

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 ...

which was the heyday of the New England whaling era. We can compare that to modern-day observations that we get from satellites or meteorological stations. It helps us put recent trends into a ...

with whaling nations establishing remote land stations and deploying factory ships that could spend months at sea processing whale oil on board. By the 20 th century, industrial-scale commercial ...