Compañía Argentina de Pesca (English: Argentine Fishing Company) was initiated by the British-Norwegian whaler and Antarctic explorer Carl A. Larsen,...
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captain Carl Anton Larsen, as a whaling station for his Compañía Argentina de Pesca (Argentine Fishing Company). It was successful, with 195 whales taken...
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the whale catcher Don Miles, both of which were owned by the Compañía Argentina de Pesca. Morsa Bay is a small bay 2.5 nautical miles (5 km) east of Weddell...
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Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Soren Fagerli, Manager of the Compañía Argentina de Pesca station in Grytviken from 1938 to 1948. "Mount Fagerli". Geographic...
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Arenas company, and a subsequent conflict of interests with the Compañía Argentina de Pesca which had started whaling at Grytviken since December 1904 was...
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Place-Names Committee for Johan Kjellstrøm, a gunner of the Compañía Argentina de Pesca, Grytviken, 1943–50, and of the South Georgia Whaling Co, Leith...
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Place-Names Committee for Thorleif Hammerstad, a sealer of the Compañía Argentina de Pesca, Grytviken, for several years beginning in 1946. "Hammerstad...
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Place-Names Committee for the Luisa, one of the vessels of the Compañía Argentina de Pesca which participated in establishing the first permanent whaling...
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Place-Names Committee for Idar Jonassen (1889–1933), a gunner of the Compañía Argentina de Pesca, Grytviken, 1924–33. "Jonassen Rocks". Geographic Names Information...
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South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (category Territorial disputes of Argentina)
territory for a significant amount of time, with the whaling company Compañía Argentina de Pesca operating in the territory for approximately 60 years. However...
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Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Harald Bordal, a gunner of the Compañía Argentina de Pesca, Grytviken, for several years beginning in 1948. "Bordal Rock"...
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Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Harald Larssen, manager at the Compañía Argentina de Pesca station, Grytviken, 1951–54. "Larssen Peak". Geographic Names...
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the Carlita, a whale catcher built in 1907 and owned by the Compañía Argentina de Pesca. Islet Point, first named on the 1929 Admiralty chart for the...
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"Don Ernesto Glacier", for the catcher Don Ernesto owned by the Compañía Argentina de Pesca, was used for a glacier in the area on a British Admiralty chart...
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Committee in 1957 for Gunnar Gulbrandsen, a pattern-maker at the Compañía Argentina de Pesca station at Grytviken, 1927–30, carpenter at Stromness, 1945–46...
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Bight is for Fridthjof Jacobsen (1874–1933), who worked at the Compañía Argentina de Pesca station at Grytviken, 1904–21, and later became vice president...
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Bay was named between 1905 and 1912 after the director of the Compañía Argentina de Pesca. British scientists aboard the Undine visited the bay in 1911...
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recommended name Undine Harbour, after the sealing ship Undine of the Compañía Argentina de Pesca, has been consistently used for this bay since about 1912. Map...
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Ernesto Tornquist (category Argentine businesspeople)
in those days) around the South Georgia Islands through the Compañía Argentina de Pesca, oil exploration in Mendoza, the exploitation of quebracho in...
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by the SGS, 1951–52, for Alfredo R.L. Ryan, president of the Compania Argentina de Pesca, which operated the whaling station at Grytviken, South Georgia...
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Place-Names Committee in 1982 after Thomas de Bary, one of the first directors of the Compañía Argentina de Pesca from 1904. List of glaciers in the Antarctic...
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South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands sovereignty dispute (category 1927 establishments in Argentina)
Argentina nor Chile objected to either claim. The Compañía Argentina de Pesca (CAP), an Argentine-registered whaling company run by Norwegian Carl Anton...
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Patagonia (redirect from Patagonia (Argentina and Chile))
DIGITAL - DIARIO DE VILLA LA ANGOSTURA Y REGION DE LOS LAGOS - PATAGONIA ARGENTINA - Actualidad, cuentos, efemerides, turismo, nieve, pesca, montañismo, cursos...
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Filchner, and was named for Captain Viktor Esbensen, manager of the Compañía Argentina de Pesca whaling station at Grytviken, the first land-based whaling station...
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capital from Argentine, Norwegian and British sources, he founded the first Antarctic whaling corporation, the Compañía Argentina de Pesca (Argentine Fishing...
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for Pedro Christophersen, one of the first Directors of the Compañía Argentina de Pesca which operated the Grytviken whaling station for more than 50...
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is named for Alfredo R.L. Ryan, president since 1946 of the Compañía Argentina de Pesca, which operated the whaling station at Grytviken. List of glaciers...
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Signy Island (category Argentine Antarctica)
Cove. It was named for the whale catcher Foca, belonging to the Compañía Argentina de Pesca. Both were surveyed in 1947 by FIDS and named by UK-APC. Foca...
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1904 (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
sea captain Carl Anton Larsen, as a whaling station for his Compañía Argentina de Pesca. English engineer John Ambrose Fleming patents the first thermionic...
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Viola (trawler) (category Argentina–United Kingdom relations)
By 1927 she was laid up at Sandefjord. Dias was then sold to Compañía Argentina de Pesca, who moved her to Grytviken in South Georgia for sealing. She...
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