Deception Island
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Deception Island is in the South Shetland Islands close to the Antarctic Peninsula with a large and usually "safe" natural harbour, which is occasionally affected by the underlying active volcano. Thi
Telefon Bay
Looking WSW from the center of the caldera
Remains of the whaling station's boilers
Flensing at Whalers Bay, Deception Island. By 1912–1913, the island had 12 factory ships, and 27 catchers, occupying 200 people, with 3,000 rotting whale carcasses in the Whalers Bay area.
Hektor Station
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Hektor Station is the name of a now-abandoned whaling station located on the shore of Deception Island, Antarctica.
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…were not the only constructions; as the factory ships of the period were only able to strip the blubber from whales and could not use the carcasses, a permanent on-shore station was established by the Norwegian company Hvalfangerselskabet Hektor A/S in 1912 – to an estimated 40% of the available oil was being wasted by the ship-based system. This was the only successful shore-based industry ever…
The ruins of Hektor Station's tank farm in 2022.
Hektor Station under construction (1912).
Hektor Station in 1912. The factory ship Hektoria (I) is in the background.
The Hektor Station cemetery in 1922.