Sentences with phrase «sechart whaling station»

After a rest, Shackleton and two of his men hiked and climbed across treacherous mountains to a whaling station, where Shackleton procured a ship and sailed to rescue his comrades.

In the summers between 1614 and 1660, Smeerenburg was a thriving settlement, with around 200 men processing blubber in seven whaling stations.

In 1951 we headed for Rum Jungle, where a uranium boom was on, but halfway there we stopped in Kaniva, another boomtown, with a whaling station and high - paying jobs.

Now, an analysis of more than 1700 whale carcasses collected at Donkergat whaling station in South Africa in 1963 confirms that the bites come from the prime suspect — cookie - cutter sharks.

On the Antarctic island of South Georgia, in February, toward the middle of what passes for summer at the bottom of the world, I hurried through the ruined whaling station of Grytviken.

Post-mortem time for the sperm whale carcases averaged 28.4 hr on arrival for flensing at the Icelandic whaling station, and, although carcases were not sufficiently fresh for enzymatic studies, they were adequate for analyses of basic composition.

While this is the most heavily advertised part of the disc, it's somewhat lackluster in practice and provides only a slight teaser as to the Predator and Alien presence at the Antarctic whaling station in 1904.

This former whaling station houses a museum where you can see giant whale skeletons, harpoons and scrimshaw (etchings on whalebone).

During the 1950s Tangalooma was the site for one of the largest whaling stations in the southern hemisphere.

The whaling station museum tells fascinating tales of Albany's whaling industry and you can take a cruise to meet whales up close.

The first settlers were fur sealers who established a trading post at Spring Cove and then a whaling station.

Purchase lunch at your leisure before we join a fascinating tour of Whale World, the site of Australia's last whaling station.

Afternoon tour of Albany city, visit to Mt. Clarence, The Amity, Whaling Station Museum and The Gap.

Some of the other attractions are the Millenium Tower, a tour of the old whaling station, a game of golf on the 18 - hole golf course or shopping at one of the many chain stores.

The real damage was done between 1911 and 1933, when Japanese whalemen killed 1,449 after Japanese companies established several whaling stations on Korean Peninsula and on Chinese coast such as near the Daya bay and on Hainan Island.

Not only were the whales taken in Magdalena Bay, but also by ships anchored along the coast from San Diego south to Cabo San Lucas and from whaling stations from Crescent City in northern California south to San Ignacio Lagoon.

Only a few were caught from two whaling stations on the coast of California from 1919 to 1926, and a single station in Washington (1911 — 21) accounted for the capture of another.

There were Chinese fishing villages, and whaling stations.

On the way to the Millennium Tower one can enjoy magnificent harbour and city views or a tour of the old whaling station, one of the last remaining symbols that remind us that whaling took place off the coast of Durban many years ago.

Tours take place in the old whaling station on the Bluff Headlands as well as one of the largest collections of pictures, memorabilia, newspaper clippings and old footage of the whaling days.

They also drop mail, groceries, supplies, and the occasional passenger along the way at float homes, the Sechart Whaling Station, Bamfield and finally Ucluelet.

Shore - based whaling stations near Victoria on Vancouver Island, using only row boats and hand - thrown harpoons, removed the entire population in less than a decade.

They were totally extirpated from the San Juan Islands by a small whaling station near Victoria, B.C. in the 1930s.

Now an award winning tourist destination, Whale World was once a thriving whale station which closed in 1978.

Day Four — Today we travel through Beachport, a quaint old whaling station on a sheltered bay — home to a small fishing fleet.

Today we travel through Beachport, a quaint old whaling station on a sheltered bay — home to a small fishing fleet.

This was a whaling station in former times.

Possible landing sites and excursions include Elsehul Bay, Salisbury Plain, Prion Island, Fortuna Bay, St. Andrews Bay, Gold Harbour, Drygalski Fjord, Cumberland Bay and the old whaling stations at Stromness, Leith, Husvik and Grytviken.

Fin whale meat is transported by truck from the Hvalur whaling station to Akranes, where it is cut, packaged, boxed, and made ready for export in HB Grandi facilities.

Molly's Reach is suburbia compared to the former whaling stations of Vancouver Island's west coast.

Not exact matches

Teach your little one Oceanography 101 with the Yookidoo Submarine Spray Station and the Submarine Spray Whale.

At 10 pm on 19 October 2006, Farage took part in a three - hour live interview and phone - in with James Whale on the national radio station talkSPORT.

With the proper permits in hand, Cade — a Stanford University student who works at the Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove, California — helped them outfit a dozen whales in the area with the research equivalent of a Go - Pro, a video camera that came with a motion detector and a depth finder.

Most estimates of historic whale population size have been extrapolated from old whaling figures, but this method is often very inaccurate, argues marine biologist Steve Palumbi of Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station in California, US.

Research by Dr Nicholas Carey from the Goldbogen lab at Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station, United States and collaborators from IAMC - CNR, Italy uses data from real whale lunges along with lab simulations to examine if whales alter their lunging strategy to catch different dinners.

«Our results illustrate the complex balance between whale attacks and fish escape responses, and how the lunge characteristics of the whales may be related to the escape abilities of targeted prey,» says Dr. Paolo Domenici, who spent several weeks at Hopkins Marine Station and helped lead the study.

This week we have stories on strange dimming at a not - so - distant star, sending sperm to the International Space Station, and what the fossil record tells us about how baleen whales got so ginormous with Online News Editor David Grimm.

«It's neat — we can predict exactly when humpback whales will be close to shore off Palmer Station just based on the tides,» Bernard said.

Shore - based whaling established in 1904 and rapidly expanded with six stations in operation by 1912.

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Radio listeners within 15 kilometers of the killer whale sanctuary can tune into the all - whale radio station.

Shore station where whale blubber was boiled down for the oil in the 1850s and 1860s, halfway out on the inner beach of Ballast Point

The statewide whale watch features volunteers stationed at Ecola State Park to assist visitors in spotting the 30 - ton creatures.

These sources included: (1) records of gray whale catches off the Korean coast between 1948 and 1966), (2) an observation of four gray whales in the western Okhotsk Sea in 1967 and (3) a sighting of a mother - Remote research station used since 1995 to conduct research on gray whales feeding off Sakhalin Island seen in the background, while a gray whale feeds near shore in the foreground.

Initially they promoted the expansion of gray whale tourism in Magdalena Bay through ads on Mexican TV stations.

The park has preserved historic lime kilns that were a key part of the San Juan Island economy in the late 1800's and features a functioning lighthouse and whale research station.