Subject: Re: Kerguelen and McDonald/Heard _do_ border, EEZ-wise!<br/>
Date: Aug 20, 2001 @ 19:47<br/>
Author: Peter Smaardijk (&quot;Peter Smaardijk&quot; &lt;smaardijk@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-13362657">--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., &quot;Grant Hutchison&quot; &lt;granthutchison@c...&gt; <br/>
wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; Peter:<br/>
&gt; &gt; As a matter of fact, we <br/>
&gt; &gt; started industry at Spitsbergen, in the early 17th century <br/>
&gt; &gt; (Smeerenburg whale blubber plants on Amsterdam island, just off <br/>
 </span></blockquote>the <br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; &gt; N.W. coast of West Spitsbergen). <br/>
&gt; I&#39;ve been there! The bases of the old vats used to render the whale <br/>
&gt; oil are still visible. (In fact, I travelled with a Dutch company <br/>
&gt; called Plancius, named after your cartographer. I get the <br/>
 </span></blockquote>impression <br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; that Dutch folk haven&#39;t forgotten their Arctic history the way the <br/>
&gt; British have.)<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>Impressive! Was this the expedition with Louwrens Hacquebord? He <br/>
travelled on a ship named after Plancius. I&#39;ve got a book about this <br/>
expedition. I am very interested in the old whaling trade, and have <br/>
lots of books about it...<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; <br/>
&gt; &gt; Apart from that, we used to have a <br/>
&gt; &gt; coal mine on West Spitsbergen. The Russians still do.<br/>
&gt; Same mine? The Russian town is called Barentsburg, which hints at <br/>
 </span></blockquote>the <br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; original residents ... <br/>
&gt; It&#39;s a terribly bleak place.<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>As far as I recollect (but I&#39;m not sure), the Russians had mines in <br/>
Barentsburg and Pyramiden, but the latter one is closed now. The <br/>
Barentsburg one was the Dutch one.<br/>
<br/>
Peter S.</div>