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Figure 6.12 Satellite image of phytoplankton bloom off South Georgia. (Credit: NASA)

local productivity associated with these islands is provided by the early history of
the onshore whaling industry of South Georgia in the South Atlantic here, it

took several years after the establishment of the onshore processing facilities,
before whale catching boats even had to venture out of the sheltered bays of the

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