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unusual facts about seal hunt



Willem Barentsz

The wooden lodge where Barentsz' crew sheltered was found undisturbed by Norwegian seal hunter Elling Carlsen in 1871.


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Jennifer Santiago

The award was given in recognition of a series of reports including "Stopping the Seal Hunt"-- which also appeared on the CBS Evening News.

SS Viking

In 1930 and 1931, Viking was chartered by Varrick Frissell and Alexander Gustavus Penrod (previously cinematographer of Down to the Sea in Ships) to make a film of the annual seal hunt off the coast of Newfoundland.

Varick Frissell

After graduation from Yale in 1927, he embarked on another film, The Great Arctic Seal Hunt, which was complied from a film he had shot aboard the SS Beothic during the seal hunt.