Hvalfjörður

For century's Fin whales were hunted in Iceland. But in 1986 that all changed. The International Whale Commission banned all whaling around the world. The following pictures were taken on my trip with two of my fellow students up to Hvalfjörður.

Until the 1980s, one of the biggest whaling stations in Iceland was located in this fjord. In the past the fjord also contained a large number of herring fisheries.
During World War II, a naval base of the British and American navies could be found in this fjord. One of the piers built by the United States Navy was later used by the Hvalur whaling company, until commercial whaling was shut down in the 1980s.

-Wikipedia.org

 

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Taken with Canon EOS 7D & Canon 24-70mm f/2,8

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