He took his fairly primitive, but hardly portable, cine-camera and got, I am told, unique film of the whaling operations.

At this stage, 20-year-old George Layman Jr. took over the management of the farm and the whaling operation.

On August 10, the group photographed what they considered an illegal whaling operation at an onshore packing plant.

Approximately 704,000 fin whales were caught in Antarctic whaling operations alone between 1904 and 1975.

Its ship, the Rainbow Warrior, frequently tried to interfere with nuclear tests and whaling operations.

We can't hurt the whalers and we have to stay within the boundaries of the law in opposing illegal whaling operations.

However the whaling operations were stopped in the 1850s and, for almost a century, the coast remained unused apart from occasional fishermen.

A house was built on that river for miners and a small whaling operation, but the mine produced nothing of value.

Other whaling operations followed and by 1914 there were 13 factory ships based there.