The chimney is the most obvious of the remains of the old whaling station at Bunavoneader on North Harris in the Outer Hebrides.
The remaining chimney at Bunavoneader whaling station was originally accompanied by two others but they together with the other buildings have now disappeared. The concrete building platforms and working floors can still be seen, together with the remains of a dock where the whaling ships moored while the whales were hauled up the slipway. The station was run by a Norwegian company in the early 1900s. In the 1920s it was owned by Lord Leverhulme but closed in 1929 although it reopened briefly in the 1950s. It is now thought to be the best preserved example of a whaling station remaining in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Location: Bunavoneader, North Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK
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