rather than wastefully strip the blubber and jettison the rest of the carcass as was the practice at Grytviken. Leith Harbour survived the overproduction crisis of 1931, which forced some other ...

because Grytviken whaling station was operated by an Argentine company, though almost all the managers and whalers were Norwegian. My friend George Bennett was the chemist at Leith Harbour.

An inside detail of the Whalers' Church, over a century old When the island of South Georgia was a booming whaling station, in the roaring forties, more than a century ago, Grytviken received what ...