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MARC recordWhaling and wildlife in South Georgia today / John A. Love.
| Title: | Whaling and wildlife in South Georgia today / John A. Love. |
| Author(s): | Love, John A. |
| Date: | 2008. |
| Publisher: | Isle of Lewis: Islands Book Trust |
| In: | Whaling and the Hebrides : the history of island whalers in the South Atlantic and whaling in and around the Hebrides. The proceedings of a three-day conference held in Harris, 16th-18th August 2007. (2008.), |
| Abstract: | Provides brief history of sealing and whaling on South Georgia, and description of whaling stations today. Includes comments on tourism; role of Edwards Salvesen in providing penguins for Edinburgh Zoo; effect of rats and introduced plants on wildlife of South Georgia; and role of Thomas McLeod of Stornoway in Shackleton's 1914-17 Endurance Antarctic expedition. |
| Notes: | In: Whaling and the Hebrides : the history of island whalers in the South Atlantic and whaling in and around the Hebrides. The proceedings of a three-day conference held in Harris, 16th-18th August 2007 / Islands Book Trust. |
| Keywords: | 639.2 -- Fisheries. 639.245.1 -- Whaling industry. 639.247.4 -- Sealing industry. 061.5 -- Business enterprises: Christian Salvesen. 796.51.7 -- Tourism. 598.45 -- Penguins. 59.006 -- Zoos: Great Britain. Edinburgh Zoological Park. 574 -- Ecology. 574.91 -- Species introduction. 92 -- Biographies: McLeod, Thomas Frank. 91(08) -- Expeditions: 1914-17 Shackleton. V -- History. (*7) -- Antarctic regions. (*723) -- South Georgia and Shag Rocks. (*80) -- Southern Ocean. (*82) -- South Atlantic Ocean. |
| SPRI record no.: | 188055 |
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