ROYAL RESEARCH SHIP
LEAVING FOR THE ANTARCTIC WHALE-MARKING OPERATIONS (British Official Wireless) (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) RUGBY, Oct. 15. It is announced that the royal research ship, William Scoresby, will leave St. Katherine dock, London, in a few days to continue whalemarking operations in the Antarctic. She will touch at Dakar and Capetown, and then proceed southeast to the ice edge in the vicinity of Enderby Land, working on this and other whaling grounds as the distribution of the whales renders desirable. She will not touch land again until the end of the whaling season in March. During her last marking commission a year ago some 700 whales were marked. From the William Scoresby it will be possible to regain the marks from operations in previous seasons, and thus gather information not ohly on the migrations of whales, but on the question whether whales return to the same ground in the south year after year.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23014, 17 October 1936, Page 9
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