[1] This small uninhabited islet subsequently holds an interesting piece of Grenada's history for being the former home to a Norwegian whaling station.
In the winter of 1923–1924, to study the feasibility of a commercial whaling operation off Grenada, the Norwegian Arctic explorer Captain Otto Sverdrup and the Director of Winge & Co., Halfdan Bugge, visited the island where Sverdrup, having observed 26 whales, studied the sea currents and recommended that a post be set up on the south of the island (Tønnessen, 1969).
[2] As early as the mid 19th century, whaleships were plying the waters of the Caribbean and in the 1920s a station was constructed on Glover Island by Norwegian whalers.
Until only a few years ago whaling remained a regular profession of native boatmen in the Grenadines, who employed the direct tactic of whaleboat, harpoon, and lance, unchanged from the days described by Herman Melville.
As recently as 2015 the Petite Calivigny Yacht Club (PCYC) introduced a new event on Father's Day of a boat raft-up and barbecue at Glover Island.