SOVIET WHALING IN ANTARCTIC
Address By Captain Solyanik (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, April 8. The lecture hall at the Dominion Museum was almost filled tonight when a lecture on Antarctic whaling was given by the commander of the 27-ship Russian whaling fleet now in Wellington (Captain A. N. Solyanik). Sir Vivian Fuchs and Lady Fuchs were present. Sir Vivian Fuchs proposed the vote of thanks to Captain Solyanik. Captain Solyanik gave details of Russian whaling projects. He said that the Soviet faced with a shortage of fats and foodstuffs after the war. sent a fleet to the Antarctic, as a member of the International Whaling Convention, in 1946. Since then the Russians had sent whalers south each year.
In appreciation of the hospitality shown by Wellington toward the Russian whalers, Captain Solyanik presented a mounted cachelot whale tooth to the Director of the Dominion Museum (Dr. R. A. Falla) for exhibition here. Captain Solyanik said the tooth was from a whale that attacked one of the 25 whalechasers of the fleet and broke four of its teeth on the propeller blades.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28556, 9 April 1958, Page 7
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