Everything about Compa A Argentina De Pesca totally explained
Compañía Argentina de Pesca was initiated by the
Norwegian whaler and
Antarctic explorer
Carl A. Larsen, and established on 29 February 1904 by three foreign residents of
Buenos Aires: the
Norwegian consul P. Christophersen, H.H. Schlieper (
US national)), and E Tornquist (a Swedish banker). Larsen was the company’s Manager, in which capacity he organized the building of
Grytviken, the first land-based whaling station in
Antarctica put into operation on 24 December 1904.
Compañía Argentina de Pesca applied for a
British whaling
leases at the British
Legation in
Buenos Aires; the application was filed by the company's president Christophersen and Captain Guillermo Nuñez, a technical advisor and shareholder in the company who was also Director of Armaments of the
Argentine Navy. The lease was granted by the
Governor of the Falkland Islands and
Dependencies on 1 January 1906, and subsequently renewed.
In 1960 Compañía Argentina de Pesca ceased its operations on
South Georgia, selling the Grytviken whaling station to Albion Star (South Georgia) Ltd. (
Falkland Islands).
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