Antarctica's blue whales return to South Georgia a century after they were nearly wiped out
When you buy through links on our site , we may earn an affiliate commission . Here ’s how it works . The critically - endangeredblue whale — the largest animal be intimate to have ever existed — has pass to the waters near the distant island of South Georgia near Antarctica , almost 100 years after the mega - mammal was nearly made out by industrial whaling . investigator say a recent survey of the waters around the sub - Antarctic island — a nitty-gritty for industrial whaling until it was banned in the sixties — recorded heaps of gloomy whales where only a single giant had been seen between 1998 and 2018 ....