View from E of part-circular concrete base for boiler (foreground), and byre built from brick salvaged from demolished chimney.

Description View from E of part-circular concrete base for boiler (foreground), and byre built from brick salvaged from demolished chimney.

Date 5/6/1996

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number C 68887 CN

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 794236

Scope and Content Whaling Station, Bunaveneadar, Harris, Western Isles, from east In the foreground is a part-circular concrete base for a boiler, which would have been used when the whaling station at Bunaveneadar was operational. It was established by Carl Herlofson in 1904. In front of the base is the ruin of a byre built after 1952 from brick salvaged from a demolished boiler chimney. The whaling station was abandoned in 1952. The Norwegians were very influential in the Scottish industrial whaling business. They provided money and skills - most of the men who hunted and killed the whales in Scottish waters in the 20th century were Norwegian. Lewis and Harris are both parts of the same island, collectively known as 'the Long Island', which is the most northerly in the Outer Hebrides. Together they are about 95km in length and around 32km at the widest point. Most of Lewis is quite low-lying, whereas Harris is mountainous. Bunaveneadar is situated on the west coast of Harris. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Medium Colour negative

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