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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson was on Tuesday released from detention after Denmark refused a Japanese extradition request over a 2010 clash with whalers. Watson had been held in Greenland ...

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 ...

In an old schoolroom in the Scottish Highlands, sculptor Michael Visocchi is working on Commensalis, a huge work that will be installed thousands of miles away, in Grytviken, an abandoned whaling ...

Fastening harpoon points, Courtesy: Library of Congress Shore whaling is taken up at Southampton, Long Island. The fledgling industry is manned by Native Americans, who are paid a percentage based ...