292 A HISTORY OF THE WHALE FISHERIES 



Sandefjord, Larvik, and Tonsberg, though some 

 hailed from Christiania. Two firms were established 

 in the United States of North America and one in 

 Chile. The companies possessed in the aggregate 

 one hundred and fifty-seven whaling steamers of the 

 general type described (see p. 264) with eleven 

 transport vessels and thirty-seven floating factories, 

 thirty land stations, nine guano works with thirteen 

 factories for the preparation of canned whale meat 

 and cattle food products. 



The capital of these concerns differs considerably. 

 That of the smallest was nominally one hundred and 

 twenty thousand kronen (about six thousand seven 

 hundred and fifty pounds), the largest two million 

 kronen (one hundred and twelve thousand five 

 hundred pounds). The dividends varied greatly, 

 but that of one company established on the South 

 Georgian coast was one hundred per cent. 1 



The chief whaling areas are in the northern 

 hemisphere, Alaska, the Shetlands, Ireland, 

 Iceland, the Faroes, the Hebrides, Spitsbergen; 

 in the southern hemisphere, 2 the Australian coasts, 

 Chile, South-east Africa, West Africa (Elephant 

 Bay), East Africa (Mozambique), the South 

 Shetlands, South Orkneys, South Georgia, the 

 Sandwich Isles and Kerguelen. 



Concessions are obtained for lengthy periods, 



1 See Emil Diesen, " Tabellarisk Oversight over de vigtig-ste 

 norske hvalfang-erselskaper," Feb. ,^1912. (I kommission hos 

 Grondahl u Son, Christiania.) 



8 T. E. Salvesen, " The Whale Fisheries of the Falkland 

 Islands and Dependencies," Scottish National Antarctic Ex- 

 pedition, Edinburgh, 1914, PP- 479-86, with 4 plates. 



