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The Southern Whale Fishery Company was a colonising whaling company, with a Royal Charter granted in early 1849. The Company was set up as an attempt to re~establish the declining British Southern Whale Fishery, and was actively promoted by Charles Enderby. The Company was formed after The Messrs. E...
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ftdatacite:10.17863/cam.8086 2024-09-15T17:47:45+00:00 The Southern Whale Fishery Company, Auckland Islands ... Fotheringham, Brett 1995 https://dx.doi.org/10.17863/cam.8086 https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/262798 en eng Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository open.access All Rights Reserved https://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved/ http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2 Dissertation thesis Thesis 1995 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.17863/cam.8086 2024-07-03T13:13:16Z The Southern Whale Fishery Company was a colonising whaling company, with a Royal Charter granted in early 1849. The Company was set up as an attempt to re~establish the declining British Southern Whale Fishery, and was actively promoted by Charles Enderby. The Company was formed after The Messrs. Enderby were granted a lease to the Auckland Islands in 1847 and subsequently based their whaling operation from there in 1849. The Company was undercapitalised for the project they were undertaking and a reduction in the abundance of Right whales in the South Pacific meant that whaling returns were less than estimated. It was hoped that there may be a viable stock in the Antarctic Seas, and this was investigated but no Right whales were found. The Company soon exhausted its capital and were forced to abandon its settlement at Port Ross and later wound up the company after the last of eight whaling vessels owned by the Company returned to England in 1854. The Company had underestimated fixed capital expenditure and ... Thesis Antarc* Antarctic Auckland Islands DataCite |
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The Southern Whale Fishery Company was a colonising whaling company, with a Royal Charter granted in early 1849. The Company was set up as an attempt to re~establish the declining British Southern Whale Fishery, and was actively promoted by Charles Enderby. The Company was formed after The Messrs. Enderby were granted a lease to the Auckland Islands in 1847 and subsequently based their whaling operation from there in 1849. The Company was undercapitalised for the project they were undertaking and a reduction in the abundance of Right whales in the South Pacific meant that whaling returns were less than estimated. It was hoped that there may be a viable stock in the Antarctic Seas, and this was investigated but no Right whales were found. The Company soon exhausted its capital and were forced to abandon its settlement at Port Ross and later wound up the company after the last of eight whaling vessels owned by the Company returned to England in 1854. The Company had underestimated fixed capital expenditure and ... |
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