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The Elephant Seal industry at South Georgia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

R. M. Laws
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South Georgia, one of the Dependencies of the Falkland Islands, lies in the South Atlantic Ocean between lats. 53° 50′ and 55° S. and longs. 35° 50′ and 38°15' W. The island is about 120 miles long from north-west to south-east and its greatest breadth is under thirty miles: it is heavily glacierized with an indented coastline and a backbone of high mountains rising to over 9000 ft.

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Polar Record , Volume 6 , Issue 46 , July 1953 , pp. 746 - 754
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1953

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page 749 note 1 “The natural history of the Elephant Seal with notes on other seals found at South Georgia.” Discovery Reports, Vol. 1, 1929, p. 233–56Google Scholar.

page 750 note 1 In 1951 radio equipment was installed in some vessels.

page 752 note 1 loc. cit., p. 248.

page 753 note 1 “A new method of age determination for mammals” by Laws, R. M.. Nature, Vol. 109, No. 4310, 1952, p. 972–73CrossRefGoogle Scholar.