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greatest catch was made on the coast of Graham's 

 Land, from whence the whales were towed to 

 Deception Island. 



On the Chilian coast there was one Norwegian 

 company working with a shore station at Corral i 

 Valdivia. With two steamers they got seven 

 thousand casks of oil and about three thousand sacks 

 of guano. The whales killed were principally Blues 

 and Humpbacks; Sei Whales were also seen, but 

 not hunted. A second company had a station south 

 of San Pedro, and a third (Chilian) company worked 

 from Puntas Arenas. This last company obtained 

 four thousand casks of oil, killing amongst others 

 twenty Right Whales. 



At Kerguelen one Norwegian company was at 

 work with a fixed station, hunting sea-elephants as 

 well as whales. Only eight-two whales were killed, 

 which yielded two thousand eight hundred casks of 

 oil, two steamers being engaged in the slaughter. A 

 floating factory, employing one whaling steamer, 

 utilised the carcasses of forty-one whales yielding 

 one thousand casks of oil. In South Africa a 

 company established stations at Durban and Saldana, 

 at which twenty thousand five hundred casks of oil 

 and large quantities of guano were prepared. Other 

 stations were established in Portuguese West 

 Africa; a summary of the Norwegian stations and 

 the dates of founding is given in Appendix VII. 



A company at work in Newfoundland in 1909 

 employed seven steamers, killing five hundred and 

 eighteen whales (including eighty Blue Whales). 



