'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...
Published in: | Polar Record |
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2009
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S003224740999043X http://ecite.utas.edu.au/62632 |
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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