Whalers Bay (South Shetland Islands)

Remains from the Norwegian whaling station in Whalers Bay

A blue whale being flensed at Whalers Bay. 1920s painting by Carl Dørnberger

Whalers Bay is a small bay entered between Fildes Point and Penfold Point at the east side of Port Foster, Deception Island, in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. The bay was so named by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1908-10, under Charcot, because of its use at that time by whalers.

Historic site

The site has been designated a Historic Site or Monument (HSM 71), following a proposal by Chile and Norway to the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting. It comprises all pre-1970 remains on the shore of the bay. These include artefacts and structural remains from the early whaling period (1906–1912) associated with Captain Adolfus Andresen of the Chilean Sociedad Ballenera de Magallanes, the Norwegian Hektor Whaling Station (1912–1931), the period of British scientific and mapping activity (1944–1969), and a cemetery containing 35 burials and a memorial to ten men lost at sea. It also commemorates and acknowledges the historic value of other events that occurred there.^[1]

References

↑ "List of Historic Sites and Monuments approved by the ATCM (2012)" (PDF). Antarctic Treaty Secretariat. 2012. Retrieved 2014-01-05.

This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Whalers Bay (South Shetland Islands)" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).

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Coordinates: 62°59′S 60°34′W / 62.983°S 60.567°W / -62.983; -60.567

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