Whalers’ Bay: Human occupation began here in 1911 with Norway establishing a whaling station, that closed in 1931 with the slump in whale oil prices.

The British Navy - in 1944 - made a base here that after the war became a science research station, to be occupied continuously til 1967, until a volcanic eruption saw the base evacuated and then abandoned as a mudflow destroyed most buildings during a second eruption in 1969.