The whalers unwanted gift

by Simon Nash for Surviving the southern whalers, 6 December 2008

Simon Nash is visiting the Antarctic Island of South Georgia, once one of the most important whaling sites on the planet. Now the whaling stations stand abandoned and decaying as the island’s wildlife reclaims them. But the Norwegian whalers who worked here left behind unusual and unwanted gifts.

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