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the vessels in the Ross Sua. not to mention the sub-Antarctic whaling in 

 South Georgian and Falkland waters. But this can be little more than 

 a passing phase. Already some species of whales show signs of depletion 

 of numbers, and unless whaling is so rigorously shackled by regulations 

 as to make it of little profit compared with risk it entails, the industry 

 must kill itself in a few years' time. For the rest there is nothing of value 

 in commerce in the Antarctic : certainly nothing that it can possibly pay 

 to exploit. The stories of future Antarctic coal mines can be dismissed 

 as a dream without any solid foundation. It is fortunate. And those of 

 us who care for the wild waste spaces of the world are glad to think of the 

 Antarctic as free from invasion by our modern civilisation with its 

 insistence on hurry and noise. We are glad to remember the lonely 

 places of the world and their matchless beauty, content to know that to 

 others they will bring the same fascination they did to us in years gone by. 



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