The widespread availability of cheaper kerosene was the principal factor in the precipitous decline in the whaling industry in the mid-to-late 19th century, as the leading product of whaling was oil for lamps.

An abortive attempt was made to set up a whaling industry in 1830 ( also in 1875 ).

With the end of the whaling industry, the stations were abandoned.

: provide for the proper conservation of whale stocks and thus make possible the commercial whaling and the orderly development of the whaling industry.

At its peak, in 1846, the American whaling industry employed more than 70, 000 people and 736 vessels.

* December 2 The International Whaling Commission was signed in Washington to " provide for the proper conservation of whale stocks and thus make possible the orderly development of the whaling industry ".

The island was also the site of New Zealand's last whaling station, at Whangaparapara, which was opened only in 1956 ( over a century after the whaling industry peaked in New Zealand ), and was to be closed again ( due to depletion of whaling stocks and increasing protection of whale species ) by 1962.

The name " Wellfleet " is disputed ; some argue that it comes from " Whale Fleet ," after the burgeoning whaling industry in the town, while some say it comes from a brand of oyster popular in England at the time, in order to help sales.

Larsen is also considered the founder of the Antarctic whaling industry and the settlement at Grytviken, South Georgia.

The museum displays a variety of historical items including Carib and Arawak artifacts, sugar processing machines and equipment, whaling industry items, and Josephine Bonaparte's marble bath.

Like the nearby island of Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard was brought to prominence in the 19th century by the whaling industry, during which ships were sent around the world to hunt whales for their oil and blubber.

The International Whaling Commission ( IWC ) is an international body set up by the terms of the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling ( ICRW ), which was signed in Washington, D. C., United States, on 2 December 1946 to " provide for the proper conservation of whale stocks and thus make possible the orderly development of the whaling industry ".

At least one researcher has attempted to create a Hubbert curve for the whaling industry and caviar, while another applied it to cod.

Fishing, whaling and shipbuilding made up the town's early industry.

The whaling industry was an economic mainstay for many New England coastal communities for over two hundred years.

However, once New Bedford's predominance in the whaling industry became apparent, Fairhaven's economy evolved into one that supplemented the New Bedford economy rather than competing directly with it.

The Iron Works began producing nails, bar stock, and other items such as bands for casks in the nearby New Bedford whaling industry.

Later in that century, immigrants from Portugal and its dependent territories of the Azores, Cape Verde and Madeira began arriving in New Bedford and the surrounding area, largely because of the whaling industry.

A number of Jewish families, arriving in the late 19th century, were active in the whaling industry, selling provisions and outfitting ships.

Paul Cuffee, a whaling captain active in the New Bedford whaling industry, was born in nearby Cuttyhunk and settled in Westport, Massachusetts.

From the late 1820s until the mid 1960s, Arapawa Island was a base for whaling in the Sounds.

Baker was discovered in 1818 by Captain Elisha Folger of the Nantucket whaling ship Equator, who called the island " New Nantucket ".

Before whaling, the largest population was in the Antarctic, numbering approximately 239, 000 ( range 202, 000 to 311, 000 ).

Mipps then joined Syn in his quest for revenge, pursuing Tappitt and Imogene throughout the thirteen American colonies ( supposedly preaching the gospel to the Indians ) and around the world ( as part of a whaling voyage ) afterwards, and was with him in the Caribbean when Dr. Syn turned again to piracy, assuming the name of Captain Clegg ( taking the name " Clegg " from a certain vicious biting fly he had encountered in America ), hijacking his enemy Tappitt's own ship and crew and sailing off with them ( renaming the ship the Imogene ) to become the most infamous pirate of the day.

Meanwhile, there was a growing international boycott of Faroese produce over the grindadráp ( whaling ) issue.

In the mid-1970s some Greenpeace members started an independent campaign, Project Ahab, against commercial whaling, since Irving Stowe was against Greenpeace focusing on other issues than nuclear weapons.

More ships followed in the two following winters, after which gray whaling in the bay was nearly abandoned because " of the inferior quality and low price of the dark-colored gray whale oil, the low quality and quantity of whalebone from the gray, and the dangers of lagoon whaling.

Gray whaling in Magdalena Bay was revived in the winter of 1855-56 by several vessels, mainly from San Francisco, including the ship Leonore, under Captain Charles Melville Scammon.

This was the first of 11 winters from 1855 through 1865 known as the " bonanza period ", during which gray whaling along the coast of Baja California reached its peak.

Hilter was well known for the " Hilter Gold " ( oranga ) as well as its big margarine factory which owned one of the largest whaling navy in the early 20th century.

According to Thomas Edge, an early 17th century whaling captain who was often inaccurate, " William Hudson " discovered the island in 1608 and named it " Hudson's Touches " ( or " Tutches ").

From 1615 to 1638, Jan Mayen was used as a whaling base by the Dutch Noordsche Compagnie, which had been given a monopoly on whaling in the Arctic regions by the States General in 1614.

In the first half of the nineteenth century, during the heyday of American whaling in the central Pacific, Malden was visited on a number of occasions by American whalers.

Throughout the 19th century, South Georgia was a sealers ' base as well as a whalers ' base beginning in the 20th century, until whaling ended in the 1960s.

The Falklands War was precipitated on 19 March 1982 when a group of Argentinians, posing as scrap metal merchants, occupied the abandoned whaling station at Leith Harbour on South Georgia.

The development of modern whaling techniques was spurred in the 19th century by the increase in demand for whale oil, sometimes known as " train oil " and in the 20th century by a demand for margarine and later meat.

For the 2012 commercial whaling season, starting in April and lasting six months, the quota was set to 216 minke whales.

In January the Noordsche Compagnie ( Northern Company ), modelled on the Dutch East India Company, had been established to support Dutch whaling in the Arctic.

A Norwegian, Carl Anton Larsen, established the first land-based whaling station and first permanent habitation at Grytviken in 1904.

In 1909 an administrative centre and residence were established at King Edward Point on South Georgia, near the whaling station of Grytviken.

In previous centuries, some semi-permanent whaling stations were established on the continent and some of the whalers would live there for a year or more.

They established whaling stations at the former, mainly in Red Bay, and probably established some in the latter as well.

At nearly the same time, in 1900, the American whaler George G. Cleveland, working alone, established a whaling station near the entrance of the bay, that operated for the next four years.

Riverton was established by Captain John Howell as a whaling station about 1837, when it was called Jacob's River.

During this period Pākehā whaling stations became established in the region with Te Rauparaha's encouragement and the participation of many Māori.

They established whaling stations with some cod fishing and trading.

During early European settlement, a whaling station was established close to the river's mouth, and during this period the sea was the source of almost all of the area's economy.

In November 1831 the Weller brothers, Joseph, George and Edward, established their whaling station at Wellers Rock.

The settlement at Grytviken was established on November 16, 1904, by the Norwegian sea captain Carl Anton Larsen as a whaling station for his Compañía Argentina de Pesca ( Argentine Fishing Company ).

The site of Smeerenburg was first occupied by the Dutch in 1614, when ships from the Amsterdam chamber of the Noordsche Compagnie ( Northern Company ) established a temporary whaling station here with tents made of canvas and crude, temporary ovens.

Permanent settlement on Lord Howe was established in June 1834 when the British whaling barque Caroline, sailing from New Zealand and commanded by Captain John Blinkenthorpe, landed at what is now known as Blinky Beach.

From its origins as a secret sealers ' haven Otago Harbour developed into a busy international whaling port after the Weller brothers established their whaling station at Te Umu Kuri, Wellers Rock, at what is now called Otakou in November 1831.

Charles Francis Greville, invited seven Quaker families from Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard to settle in the new town and develop a whaling fleet, In 1800, following the bankruptcy of the shipbuilding contractor Jacobs & Sons, who had established their shipyard there in 1797, he persuaded the Navy Board's overseer, Jean-Louis Barralier, to lease the site for the Navy Board and develop a dockyard for building warships.

* A whaling ship established an American colony in 1830 ;

About the same time two whaling stations were established, one at the Bluff ( Rosetta Head ) and the other near the point opposite Granite Island.

No whaling station or other lasting bases were built there by Germany until the Georg-von-Neumayer-Station, a research facility, was established in 1981.

They established whaling stations at the former, mainly in Red Bay, and probably established some in the latter as well.

They established a whaling and trading station on Killisnoo Island, giving a few jobs at the whale processing plant to both Killisnoo and Angoon residents.