This is Grytviken, the whaling station on the British island of South Georgia, lying in the South Atlantic roughly 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) due east of the bottom boot tip of Argentina.

Coal Harbour on northern Vancouver Island has a varied and colourful history that includes war, murder and commercial whaling, stretching back to the late 1800s.

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 91-year-old Sukha at one point had its source of power converted from coal to oil. ... says when the Hawkes Harbour whaling station in southern Labrador burned down in 1959, ...

The Two-Headed Whale: Life, Loss, and the Tangled Legacy of Whaling in the Antarctic by Sandy Winterbottom. Photo / Supplied. In 2016, Sandy Winterbottom stood in front of a teenager’s grave on ...