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  1. 30 de mai. de 2024 · Britain's Whale Hunters: The Untold Story. Home. Episodes. Clips. 1950s photos from the whaling world. The whaling fleet ships. Adam Nicolson looks at how and why whale populations were so...

  2. Amazing rarely-seen archive footage and first-hand testimony from the last of Britain’s whale hunters reveals what it was really like to have been a whale hunter in Antarctica, providing Europe with essential oils for soap and food.

  3. 10 de jun. de 2014 · Adam Nicolson in Norway, aboard a restored Antarctic whale-catching vessel. Before the Vikings came to Britain there was no whaling, though coastal-dwellers would avail themselves of any beached strays by chopping them up for their meat and oil.

  4. 8 de jun. de 2014 · In the twentieth century, whaling ships killed 1.5 million whales in Antarctica, bringing the biggest creatures that have ever lived to the brink of extinction. Whalers from Europe led the rush south and were still whaling into the 1960s.

  5. 7 de jun. de 2014 · For a new BBC4 documentary about Britain's forgotten whale hunters, Adam Nicolson travels to Leith Harbour in South Georgia, home to our once booming whaling industry