Tassie’s Whale Boys: Whaling in Antarctic waters by Michael Stoddart | PB Autobiography / Biography worked and raised their families

worked and raised their families in what would be seen by todayʼs standards as pretty tough times

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Tassie’s Whale Boys: Whaling in Antarctic waters by Michael Stoddart | PB Autobiography / Biography worked and raised their familiesIn the 1920s the Norwegian whalers called into Hobart with their factory ships and harpoon guns. Their cruel slaughter eventually brought the huge fin and blue whales in the frigid water of Antarcticas Ross Sea to the brink of extinction. In October 1923, twelve young Tasmanian men signed on for the adventure of a lifetime and altogether 132 Tasmanians joined the Norwegian whaling expeditions over the eight following summers. All of them sought