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Antarctic Whaling: The Nielsen Alonso Voyage, 1926-27

[Exhibition cover graphic]12 June 2002
Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts
State Library of Tasmania, 91 Murray Street, Hobart


The Nielsen Alonso was a Norwegian whaling vessel. For five summers, from 1926-27 to 1930-31, the ship called at Hobart to enlist a crew of adventurous young (and not-so-young) Tasmanians before proceeding to the Ross Sea, in the Antarctic.

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