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n. A dock in which the carcass of hunted whales are processed, and where whale hunters sometimes live.
Usage examples of "whaling station".
It was dispatched to the offices of the Nord Syd Georgia Hvalselskab in Oslo and Eriksen began the work of closing the whaling station at Grytviken as the Antarctic winter closed in on the ice-capped island of South Georgia.
In 1916, after seventeen months of fighting the cruelesi conditions imaginable-which included a grueling trek across the pack-ice, two voyages in tiny, whaleboat-size craft over a storm-tossed Southern Ocean, and a terrifying hike across the jagged peaks of South Georgia-Shackleton finally reached a whaling station and safety, then returned to rescue those he had left behind on Elephant Island.
A fire using a stack of weathered lumber at the whaling station was a possibility, but it would have to be placed near the entrance.
Before they left for the rookery, she prodded the others to their feet and sent them to steal wood from the whaling station to build a fire.
Then the fish company bought the land and the old whaling station, and no one could get out there.
There is a historic whaling station aboard the island still maintained by the British that the passengers of the Polar Queen visit.
There is a historic whaling station aboard the island stillmaintained by the British that the passengers of the Polar Queen visit.
He had re-erected it on the compacted desert sands alongside the ruined and abandoned whaling station which had given the desolate bay its name of Walvis Bay.
They'd proceed probably to the old whaling station in Hvalfj”.
They'd proceed probably to the old whaling station in Hvalfjordur to wait their chance.