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COMMERCIAL POSSIBILITIES.

Apart from the mineral resources, described at length else-
where in this report, the natural products of Graham island are
timber and fish.

The timber should prove of value in the future, and the
fisheries, when properly conducted, will also be of value. The
whaling industry is being carried on with success by a company
with stations at Naden harbour, on Graham island, and at Rose
harbour, at the south end of the group. Three steam whaling
boats are operated from Naden harbour, and the catch usually
consists of sulphur bottoms. Occasionally a sperm whale is
captured and in 1914 a specimen of the very rare right whale
was taken. This single animal was valued at $20,000.