However, no eyewitness reports of whaling activities at Davenport Landing have been found.
Foreign governments and conservation groups sharply criticize Japan's whaling activities as a front for commercial whaling; much of the meat ends up in restaurants.
The carving of whale teeth and bones was a means of whiling away the hours at sea between whaling activities.
Iceland have been involved in controversy over their continued whaling activity.
George subsequently became involved in grazing, but Archibald continued with whaling activities.
"There is so much we could learn about the early whaling activities there."
The goal is to persuade their governments to curtail whaling activities.
After a brief suspension of whaling activities, commercial hunting resumed in May 2008, when a new license was granted.
At the time, a considerable fishery and whaling activity was based on the island.