| Fisheries science has long argued that whalers were killing too many whales and that their numbers were dwindling alarmingly. |
| Since the international ban on whaling 21 years ago, cruising sailboats have replaced whalers as the primary visitors to the islands. |
| However, the island's desolation was offset by whalers who came aboard from the ships Emma Jane and Roswell King. |
| Satellite imagery becomes useful for interpreting ice conditions to be faced by whalers no later than early March. |
| Weyler is one of those who went out on the open sea in tiny boats, looking the whalers in the eye until they finally blinked. |
| The Falklands were colonised by house sparrows travelling aboard a fleet of whalers from Uruguay. |
