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The name "Grytviken" is Swedish for "The Pot Cove" and the place was so named by a 1902 Swedish surveyor who found at the site old try pots, used to render seal oil. | The name "Grytviken" is Swedish for "The Pot Cove" and the place was so named by a 1902 Swedish surveyor who found at the site old try pots, used to render seal oil. | ||
The settlement at Grytviken was established on in 1904 by Carl Anton Larsen as a whaling station. It was phenomenally successful, with 195 whales taken in the first season alone. Whaling has since ceased, and Grytviken is inhabited by personnel of the British Antarctic Survey}}<noinclude> | The settlement at Grytviken was established on in 1904 by Carl Anton Larsen as a whaling station. It was phenomenally successful, with 195 whales taken in the first season alone. Whaling has since ceased, and Grytviken is inhabited by personnel of the British Antarctic Survey.}}<noinclude> | ||
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