Why Iceland’s last whaler says the industry should not be banned
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Source: The Age
Published: 2026-09-23 11:30 UTC+10:00
Section: Environment / Conservation
Factuality Score: 100
Opinion Category: Neutral
Topics: Military & Defence, Family, World News, Environment & Climate, War & Conflict
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Kristján Loftsson is the last Icelandic whaler, a businessman with a piratical air whose uncle died on a cargo ship torpedoed by a U-boat in the frigid oceans between Greenland and Canada during World War II and who, as a young man, served as a lookout on his father’s first whaling boat.
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