Note: Pleased be advised that some of the images of whaling in this video are graphic and may be disturbing for some viewers. This Genevieve Johnson speaking to you from Albany, in Western Australia.

Given our local history, it's not hard to imagine one of the old whaling ships driving hard through the South Pacific. Since we tend to think of sailing as a summertime thing, maybe it would be a ...

A 21-year-old Herman Melville signs aboard the whaler Acushnet out of Fairhaven. He will remain at sea for more than three years. During a "gam" with the whaling vessel Lima in the South ...

I bought it the first time I went down to South Georgia — to work as an electrician for Christian Salvesen, Britain's biggest whaling company. I was employed first at Leith Harbour on South ...

A lot of oil could be extracted from the bones as well as from the blubber. Take a trip back in time with John Alexander's stunning photos of his time in the whaling industry.

Undeterred by declining appetites for whale meat, and unfazed by global opposition to commercial hunts, Japan's whaling industry ... the 30-year-old Nisshin Maru, and comes with a vast array ...