Inside tip · Albany
Albany's whaling station was Australia's last shore-based one. When did it close?
Answer: 1978
In 1978, the last shore-based whaling station in Australia closed. It's now Albany's Historic Whaling Station museum.
The Cheynes Beach Whaling Company started in 1952 at Frenchman Bay, first hunting humpbacks, then sperm whales. Its ships berthed for the last time on 21 November 1978.
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