and the
Ross Sea Whalers”
Publisher: The Author, P.O.Box
8711, Havelock North, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand
© J.P.C.Watt, 1989, 2000.
ISBN 0-9597719-2-1
The Story of the Norwegian Whalers’ Base (1924-33) in Paterson Inlet, Stewart Island. New Zealand.
Between 1923 and 1933 the Ross Sea Whaling Company of Sandefjord, Norway, made nine expeditions to the Ross Sea in Antarctica, using an over-wintering and repair base located in Paterson Inlet, Stewart Island, New Zealand.
This book details the background, the life, and the work of this steam-age enterprise that linked two antipodean harbours – Sandefjord (Norway) and Paterson Inlet (New Zealand).
In addition to describing the shipyard and the social contact between the Norwegians and the Stewart Islanders, the book puts in perspective this first licensed activity within New Zealand’s Ross Sea Dependency.
Ian Church, Otago Daily Times. 13 December 1989.
“James Watt har vaert meget grundig.”
Oddvar Akselsen. Sandefjords Blad. 17 March 1990.
“It is history of the good old-fashioned kind – no axes to grind,
just painstaking research into what happened, what it was like being there; no
stones left unturned, everything set down – but told with style and warmth”.
“Joanne Warrington’s drawings are works of art as well as of elegant
precision”.
Sheila Natusch, NZ Marine News 1990. (New Zealand Ship and Marine Society).
“A classic study in industrial
archaeology, it includes a thorough description of the shipyard at its zenith
and what remains of it today” … “This attractively laid out book will appeal
immensely to everyone interested in ‘modern’ whaling history.”
John H. Harland. The Northern Mariner 1995. (Canadian Nautical Research Society).