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Whalers Passage (53°59′S 37°29′W / 53.983°S 37.483°W / -53.983; -37.483) is a narrow channel lying between the Welcome Islands and Sky Rock, off the north coast of South Georgia. The name appears to be first used on a 1931 British Admiralty chart.

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Whalers Passage

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Whalers Passage (53°59′S 37°29′W / 53.983°S 37.483°W / -53.983; -37.483) is a narrow channel lying between the Welcome Islands and Sky Rock, off the...

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South Georgia

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List of landforms of South Georgia Ryan Reef Storer Reef Sutton Crag Whalers Passage Hayward, R.J.C. (1983). "Glacier fluctuations in South Georgia, 1883–1974"...

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Northwest Passage

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The Northwest Passage (NWP) is the sea lane between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America...

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Welcome Islands

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and sub-antarctic islands List of Antarctic islands north of 60° S Whalers Passage  This article incorporates public domain material from "Welcome Islands"...

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Sky Rock

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coast of South Georgia. Charted and named by DI personnel in 1930. Whalers Passage  This article incorporates public domain material from "Sky Rock"....

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World Hockey Association

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deal, four WHA clubs – the Edmonton Oilers, New England Whalers (renamed the Hartford Whalers), Quebec Nordiques and Winnipeg Jets – joined the NHL. The...

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Tongatapu

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Langdon, Robert (ed.) (1984), Where the whalers went: an index to the Pacific Islands visited by American whalers (and some other ships) in the 19th century...

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Sea Shepherd Conservation Society

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in deadly duel with whalers". The Guardian. London. Retrieved June 11, 2009. Fraser, Doug (April 9, 2008). "Cape man fights whalers". Cape Cod Times. Archived...

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Neck or Nothing Passage

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applied prior to 1830, probably by whalers who frequented Blythe Bay and who at times ran their vessels to sea via this passage to escape severe easterly gales...

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Graham Gore

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Barretto Junior, reducing the final crew to 129 men. In late July 1845 the whalers Prince of Wales (Captain Dannett) and Enterprise (Captain Robert Martin)...

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Lemaire Island

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to Norwegian whalers in the area from 1913. Chilean Antarctic Expeditions operated a science station on Waterboat Point at Aguirre Passage from 1951-73...

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Sperm whale

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third instead of a dorsal fin. The largest ridge was called the 'hump' by whalers, and can be mistaken for a dorsal fin because of its shape and size. In...

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Charles Francis Hall

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Hall shot Patrick Coleman, a whaler in his party, claiming that Coleman, himself unarmed, was attempting mutiny. Other whalers in the party claimed the attack...

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Military activity in the Antarctic

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Ross Sea and Antarctic coastline in an unsuccessful search for Allied whalers Operation Tabarin (United Kingdom, 1944–45) Operation Highjump (United...

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Tahiti

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In the 1790s, whalers began landing at Tahiti during their hunting expeditions in the southern hemisphere. The arrival of these whalers, who were subsequently...

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Greenland

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Greenlandic trade, allowing no more than small scale barter trading with British whalers. In wartime Greenland developed a sense of self-reliance through self-government...

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Buka Island

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Langdon, Robert (1884) Where the whalers went: an index to the Pacific ports and islands visited by American whalers (and some other ships) in the 19th...

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Right whale

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are weaned at eight months old. Right whales were a preferred target for whalers because of their docile nature, their slow surface-skimming feeding behaviors...

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Aldona Jonaitis

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Whalers' Shrine (1999) Looking North : Art from the University of Alaska Museum (1998) Robert Davidson: Eagle of the Dawn (1993) The Yuquot Whalers'...

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Ebon Atoll

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Langdon, Robert (1984). Where the whalers went: an index to the Pacific ports and islands visited by American whalers (and some other ships) in the 19th...

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World of A Song of Ice and Fire

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large whale population in the Shivering sea, many of the Ibbenses were whalers. The Ibbenses are known to chew whale blubber in order to maintain their...

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Channels of the Hawaiian Islands

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Hawaiian Islands the water between islands is typically called a channel or passage. Described here are the channels between the islands of Hawaiʻi, arranged...

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