Criterion (iii): Red Bay Basque Whaling Station is an outstanding example of the tradition of whale hunting established by the Basques in the 16th century for the production of oil which was ...

Some sources suggest that it means 'near water'. The first settlement in the area was that at Venus Bay where a whaling station was established in the 1820s. The tiny settlement consisting of a ...

The Red Bay Basque Whaling Station in Newfoundland and Labrador became Canada's 17th World Heritage site Saturday. UNESCO approved the historic station at its annual meeting held in Cambodia.

There are many draws to the place: friendly and efficient service, a sun-drenched deck with views of Humboldt Bay ... station threatened to strike over the smell. For a few years, the whaling ...

Modern whaling dates back to Christmas Eve, 1904, when Captain Carl Anton Larsen of Sandefjord, Norway, brought the first whale oil of the season into Grytviken, a bleak whaling station on the ...

On the shores of Twofold Bay in southern New South Wales stands an old weatherboard cottage and the remains of a tryworks, a processing plant where oil was recovered from whale blubber. Between the ...