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Shetland's links with whaling go back as long as the islands have been inhabited, but the heyday of commercial whaling was in the mid-20th Century. It was an industry largely run by the Norwegians, but they relied heavily on Shetlanders crewing the ships that sailed down to the Antarctic for several months every year. But why were men from Shetland so valued as crew on these ships, and as workers on the shore stations of South Georgia? And what do those men think now about their involvement in an industry which is almost universally shunned by the international community? Mark Stephen meets the Shetland ex-whalers.