ePostcard #58: Whale Tears (South Georgia)

ePostcard #58: Whale Tears (South Georgia)

ePostcard #58: Whale Tears (South Georgia)  The total harvest of marine mammals around South Georgia represents a slaughter which has never been matched around the world. The whaling stations built by the Norwegian and British whaling industry were large-scale...
ePostcard #57: Whaling Rust

ePostcard #57: Whaling Rust

ePostcard #57: Whaling Rust When you first visit Grytviken you are, quite simply, stunned into silence. In November of 1904 the Norwegian, C. A. Larsen, with experience whaling in Arctic waters, established the first whaling enterprise on South Georgia at Grytviken....