[2] Similarly to the peoples from the fjords and channels, inhabitants of more northern parts of Chile practised scavenging from at least colonial times to well into the 20th century.
[1] Chilean registered whalers made annual travels to Galápagos Islands and the Gulf of Panama in search of whales.
He later managed the Sociedad Ballenera de Magallanes (the Magellan Whaling Company) with a shore station in Bahía Aguila.
In 1914, he set out from San Pedro with a factory ship, Sobraon, and two catchers to hunt humpbacks along the coast from Chile, Peru, Ecuador and on to Columbia, following the migrating animals.
[3][4][5] Encouraged by Andresen, another Norwegian whaler, Christen Christensen, sent the Vesterlide to San Pedro, captained by his own son, to hunt blue whales in the Bay of Corcovado.