CRISSCROSSING AUSTRALIA-ALBANY'S WHALING HERITAGE
March 23rd 2009 (Excerpted from my book Our Summer in Australia and New Zealand, Amazon.com.)
A highlight of our time in Albany was a visit to the whaling station, which now goes by the unfortunate name of Whale World. The station was the last such large commercial operation to close under pressure from the worldwide bans and restrictive treaties on many form of whaling enacted in the 1970s. The Albany station
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