Antarctic Whaling : A Case Study in Near Extinction

Antarctic Whaling explores how British whalers came to claim so large a share of the whales taken from the Southern Ocean in the first half of the twentieth century, and, more particularly, where, when, how and why the British Government came to play so large a part in whaling history through its endeavour to regulate the whaling grounds.

John Sheail (DLit London) is an historical geographer and, prior to retirement, an environmental historian with the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (Natural Environment Research Council) and External Professor of Geography at Loughborough University. His publications include a dozen books and over 200 research papers.

Paul Rodhouse (DSc Southampton) is a marine biologist with a background in marine living resources, fisheries oceanography and ecology. His BSc was in biological sciences at Westfield College, London University and his MSc and PhD in oceanography at the University of Southampton. After receiving his PhD, he worked at the Shellfish Research Laboratory, University College Galway, then in the Ecology and Evolution Department at Stony Brook University, New York. The rest of his career was spent at the British Antarctic Survey, where he is now an emeritus fellow.

John Dudeney (PhD and BSc London) has over 56 years of Antarctic experience, first as a physical scientist and administrator at the British Antarctic Survey, retiring as Deputy Director in 2006, then as a researcher in Antarctic political history and a lecturer on Antarctic tour ships. He has travelled many times to Antarctica including two consecutive winters in the late 1960s. John has around 100 publications and was honoured to receive the Polar Medal in 1976, a second clasp in 1995 and an OBE in 2004.