Archive image from page 206 of Discovery reports (1932) Discovery reports discoveryreports06inst Year: 1932 COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS OF DATA 169 whalers. When whales are plentiful in inshore waters the catchers will naturally not go farther afield, and we have evidently no means of knowing how abundant whales may be in the unexplored parts. When, however, a large area is covered we may be confident that within its limits no considerable concentration of whales existed without being detected. In using the charts as evidence of distribution of whales this limitation must constantly be borne in
Archive image from page 206 of Discovery reports (1932) Discovery reports discoveryreports06inst Year: 1932 COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS OF DATA 169 whalers. When whales are plentiful in inshore waters the catchers will naturally not go farther afield, and we have evidently no means of knowing how abundant whales may be in the unexplored parts. When, however, a large area is covered we may be confident that within its limits no considerable concentration of whales existed without being detected. In using the charts as evidence of distribution of whales this limitation must constantly be borne in mind. During the seasons with which we are dealing whaling in South Georgia was con- ducted from five land stations and, until 1929-30, from one permanently moored floating factory, all situated on the north-east coast of the island (Fig. i). The whale-catchers Willis Is. SOUTH GEORGIA LZ gerite Rks. Fig. I. South Georgia, showing positions of whaling stations. were thus working from the same base throughout the season. At the South Shetlands conditions were different, for the land is heavily glaciated, and it is only at Deception Island, where the ice is melted by lingering traces of volcanic activity, that the erection of a shore station has been possible. In addition to this station there is a considerable number of floating factories, and these though often moored at Deception Island, were frequently shifted to other harbours. Those most often used were Admiralty Bay in King George Island, Melchior Harbour in Schollaert Channel and Port Lockroy in Neumayr Channel (Fig. 2). Other harbours in Trinity Island and in Gerlache Strait were occasionally used, and in some seasons, when ice conditions were exceptionally favourable, the factories went as far south as the Biscoe Archipelago. On approaching the whaling grounds in the spring the factories were often delayed by pack-ice, and not infrequently they worked for a period along the ice edge in the neighbourhood while awaitin
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