whaling station
Blubber rendering facility
A whaling station is a shore-based facility for processing whales—rendering blubber into oil, extracting baleen, and preparing other products.
These industrial operations flourished in the 19th and early 20th centuries, often in remote coastal locations near whale migration routes: The abandoned whaling station still stands on South Georgia Island.
Most closed after commercial whaling declined.
- whaleshipVessel for hunting cetaceans
- Nantucket sleighrideHarpooned whale towing whaleboats
- flensingRemoving whale fat
- bone yardDisposal site for discards
- factory shipShip that processes seafood
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