'The first practical Soviet steps towards getting a foothold in the Antarctic': the Soviet Antarctic whaling flotilla Slava

AfterWorldWar 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 1946International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling and to use its whaling operations to ex...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Polar Record
Main Author: Gan, I
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2009
Subjects:
History and Archaeology
Historical Studies
Historical Studies not elsewhere classified
Antarctic
Slava
The Antarctic
Antarc*
Polar Record
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1017/S003224740999043X
http://ecite.utas.edu.au/62632
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Summary:AfterWorldWar 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 1946International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling and to use its whaling operations to exercise leverage withregard to political advantage in any future discussions on an international regime for the Antarctic.

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