The Discovery of Antarctica. Profiting by Slaughter

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The 1930s saw the acquisition of factory whaling ships to sail to the Antarctic. This photo is of whalers wintering in Cape Town in 1938. The whaling industry, despite its bloody connotations, contributed significantly to the economy of the Cape, and is recorded in historical photographs of the port. Photo: Brian Ingpen

Daniella McCahey, Texas Tech University and Alessandro Antonello, Flinders University 200 years ago, people discovered Antarctica – and promptly began profiting by slaughtering some of its animals to near extinction. A whaler on the slipway at Saldanha Bay. Photo: Brian Ingpen Two hundred years ago, on Nov. 17, Connecticut ship captain Nathaniel Palmer spotted the…

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