"establish the whereabouts" is correct and usable in written English.
You would use it when you want to find out the location of something or someone. For example, "The police were struggling to establish the whereabouts of the missing girl."
Fellow activists said he had crossed the Yalu river, on the border between China and North Korea, in October to establish the whereabouts of some North Korean refugees, who had been arrested in Dandong by Chinese authorities and repatriated.
According to the reports in the German news media, the help from the intelligence service, which included an effort to establish the whereabouts of Saddam Hussein, came despite the German government's opposition to the war.
But analysts said it remained an enormous challenge to establish the whereabouts of suspected al-Qaida cells or to carry out an accurate strike against them, given the limitations of the AC-130.
Read the full review Entertaining Hollywood satire from the Coen brothers, featuring Josh Brolin as a studio fixer attempting to establish the whereabouts of missing actor Baird Whitlock George Clooneyy), star of the eponymous Roman epic.
But analysts said it remained an enormous challenge to establish the whereabouts of suspected al-Qaida cells, or to carry out an accurate strike given the limitations of the AC-130.
And it has yet to establish the whereabouts of Vladimiro Montesinos, Mr Fujimori's disgraced intelligence chief who vanished after returning home on October 23rd from a brief sojourn in Panama.A subcommittee of Congress investigating Mr Montesinos has heard some startling claims.
Most of the work of his company, Child Abduction Recovery International, involved establishing the whereabouts of kidnapped children, and he only intervened if a parent had legal proof of custody.
Two geographers think they have finally established the whereabouts of the country seat which PG Wodehouse used as a model for Blandings Castle, home of Lord Emsworth and various pigs.
Husain Haqqani, Pakistan's ambassador to Washington, said in an e-mail on Wednesday that "the courts and the government are investigating cases of disappearances with a view to establishing the whereabouts of the disappeared persons and the circumstances under which the alleged disappearances took place".
We are urgently establishing the whereabouts of our locally engaged security staff to ensure their wellbeing". British nationals have been warned against "all but essential travel" to Iran, and the small number in the country were told to stay indoors and await advice.
