‘The first practical Soviet steps towards getting a foothold in the Antarctic’: the Soviet Antarctic whaling flotilla Slava
ABSTRACT After World War II (WWII), the USSR acquired a whaling flotilla as war reparations from the Germans. This event was the beginning of Soviet whaling in the Antarctic. It also motivated the USSR to sign the 1946 International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling and to use its whaling ope...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s003224740999043x 2024-03-03T08:37:43+00:00 ‘The first practical Soviet steps towards getting a foothold in the Antarctic’: the Soviet Antarctic whaling flotilla Slava Gan, Irina 2009 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s003224740999043x https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S003224740999043X en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Polar Record volume 47, issue 1, page 21-28 ISSN 0032-2474 1475-3057 General Earth and Planetary Sciences Ecology Geography, Planning and Development journal-article 2009 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s003224740999043x 2024-02-08T08:33:23Z ABSTRACT After World War II (WWII), the USSR acquired a whaling flotilla as war reparations from the Germans. This event was the beginning of Soviet whaling in the Antarctic. It also motivated the USSR to sign the 1946 International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling and to use its whaling operations to exercise leverage with regard to political advantage in any future discussions on an international regime for the Antarctic. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Polar Record Cambridge University Press Antarctic The Antarctic Slava ENVELOPE(155.333,155.333,-68.883,-68.883) Polar Record 47 1 21 28 |
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ABSTRACT After World War II (WWII), the USSR acquired a whaling flotilla as war reparations from the Germans. This event was the beginning of Soviet whaling in the Antarctic. It also motivated the USSR to sign the 1946 International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling and to use its whaling operations to exercise leverage with regard to political advantage in any future discussions on an international regime for the Antarctic. |
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