WHALE-MARKING IN ANTARCTICA
BRITISH RESEARCH SHIP. (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, October 15. It is announced that the Royal Research ship William Scoresby will leave the St. Katherine Dock, London, in a few days to continue whalemarking operations in the Antarctic. She will touch Dakar (Senegal) and Cape Town, and will then proceed south-east to the ice edge in the vicinity of Enderby Land, working on this and other whaling grounds, as the distribution of whales renders it desirable that she should 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 is possible to regain the marks for the operations of previous seasons and thus gather information not only about the migrations of whales, but also about the question whether whales return to the same ground in the south year after year.
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Southland Times, Issue 23024, 19 October 1936, Page 2
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