{"id":111804,"date":"2025-09-03T15:36:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T15:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/111804\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T15:36:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T15:36:14","slug":"sooth-georgia-dey-didna-fling-him-far-enyoch-pairt-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/111804\/","title":{"rendered":"Sooth Georgia \u2013 \u201cDey didna fling him far enyoch!\u201d (pairt 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dis is pairt o a series o tree peecis o writeens aboot Sooth Georgia. Sooth Georgia sits oot bi himsel eight-hundir mile fae da Falklands an ower a thoosan mile fae Antarctica. Da island is famed fir its connecshun til explorers an da amazin wildlife tae be fun dere.
Fir maist Shetlanders, da connecshun til Sooth Georgia is trowe da industrial whaleen. Earlier in da simmer South Georgia Heritage Trust launched da Whalers\u2019 Memory Bank.<\/p>\n

Ower da past twa year, South Georgia Heritage Trust ir b\u00f8n wirkin wi ex-whalers an dir faimilies tae big up a bank o informashun aboot whit life wis lik fir fokk at da industrial whalin, writes Helen Balfour.<\/p>\n

Fae da projict started in 2023 w\u2019ir hed warkshops, gaddered stories, photos, films, mementos an objicts. Some o hit, nivver afore shared sae widely.<\/p>\n

Dis projict started fae an idee at wis hed trowe da Covid-19 pandemic. Da curator o wir museum, Jayne, wis lookit fir infurmaishun aboot da whalers bit cudna fin hit fae dir pirspectiv. Sh\u00f8 evently fan ap\u00f8 Gibbie Fraser\u2019s compilashun \u201cShetland Whalers Remember\u2026\u201d Dis book tells da stories, idda whalers ain wirds, o dir time at da whaleen. Sh\u00f8 wis vexed at dis wisna mair aesily available an pat tagidder a bid fir fundeen fae da National Lottery Heritage Fund fir da projict.<\/p>\n

Online, you will fin twartree differint pairts o da story. Spaekin aboot Da Story o Whaleen, dis is aboot why it cam tae be at Sooth Georgia wis da plaess fir da whaleen. Hit spaeks aboot why it wis important til Briteen\u2019s Waar effort. Whal oil wis \u00f8sed baith fir maetin an powerin da nashun. Da oil wis \u00f8sed in margarine, cakes an biscuits as weel as maet extract an fir maetin animals an aa.<\/p>\n

Noo dis is hoo da whalin station leuks. Onybody veesitin will see da intirils o da factory an processin pairts. Da South Georgia Museum is ta da right.<\/p>\n

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Da nixt pairt spaeks aboot Da Whalers\u2019 Story an dat wis covered idda last piece fir da Shetland News. Whit life wis lik idda differin pairts o da plaess. Wheddir wirkin idda factory, ap\u00f8 catchers or factory ships \u2013 life widda b\u00f8n interestin wi dem aa.<\/p>\n

Idda Storeroom, you\u2019ll fin objicts fae da Sooth Georgia Museum. Dis objicts spaek ti differin pairts o da history. Een o my favourites bein da Harpoon replica (1996.4.244)<\/a>. Dis wis maed bi a Norsk engineer, likly trowe da winter whin dey widda hed a peerie bit mair time ti demsels. Hits boany maed, oot o brass an highlichts da wye at da harpoons wirked. It helps tae shaa da talent o da folk wirkin i Sooth Georgia.<\/p>\n

Hit saems unkan ta see photos in colour. Hit maks you raelise hit wisna sae lang ago fae da whalin wis happenin.<\/p>\n

Da Whalers\u2019 Memory Bank is still beein wirkit ap\u00fcn. We\u2019ll be addin material til it whinivver wi git it. Hoopfully, mair fokk will add ti wir Whalers\u2019 Gallery \u2013 whar we hoop tae big up a list o eens at gid tidda whaleen in Sooth Georgia. Dis projict wid a nivver happened ithoot da support, interest an steereen fae da ex-whalers demsels.<\/p>\n

Tanks fir readin dis pieces. I sood end wi a peerie fun \u2013 laek hoo da whalers wid! Hockin trowe screeds o mindeens fae whalers left tidda Sooth Georgia Museum, we cam across a good yarn. Translated here fir you of coorse. Ee man says, \u2018Sooth Georgia is da ferdist flung corner o da Breetish Empire,\u2019 dat promptit fae his freend: \u2018Yae an da \u2026.. dat did, niver baald hit far enyoch!\u2019<\/p>\n

Fin oot mair at https:\/\/whalersmemorybank.sgmuseum.gs\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Pairt 1 an 2:<\/p>\n

Sooth Georgia \u2013 explorashun ti exploitashun (pairt 1)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Sooth Georgia \u2013 \u2018Dere sh\u00f8 blaas!\u2019 (pairt 2)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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