A Norwegian whaling steamer of South Georgia just after the shot. A humpback whale is fast, 

 and the harpoon line (on the port bow) is being drawn in by a steam winch located behind the mast. 

 The chopped-off flukes of a dead whale show amidships. Note in the foreground a Wilson's petrel 

 (Oceanites oceanicus) which migrates northward to our coast every year, and farther back a Cape 

 pigeon (Daption capense) one of the commonest petrels of the southern seas 





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Three humpback whales (Megaptera sp.), two spouting. Photographed from a Norwegian 

 whaling steamer, South Georgia 

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