The Antarctic neighborhood has been home to numerous sportfishing villages , whale station , scientific base , and elbow room stations for geographic expedition . Many of these facilities have since been abandoned , allow to the snow and ice . But they still dish as noteworthy clock time capsulate to the industries and expeditions of their times .
Whaling station and British base, Whalers Bay, Deception Island
The Whalers Bay station was used by a Norwegian - Chilean whaling company in the former 1900s as a ship stem . When oil monetary value dropped during the Great Depression , the place was abandoned .
In 1944 , the British Admirality and the Colonial Office built a permanent root word there as the part of Operation Tabarin to establish a twelvemonth - round bearing in the Antarctic . However , due to volcanic eruptions between 1967 and 1969 , the smudge was once again give up and has been for more than four decades .
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Oasis Station (Soviet Union, 1956-1959) later renamed A. B. Dobrowolski Station (Poland, 1959-1979), Bunger Hills, Knox Coast
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Pole of Inaccessibility, where Comrade Lenin is still watching, 1958
In December 1958 , Soviet scientists set up a impermanent stem on The Inaccessibility Pole , marked with a bust of Lenin . This place has the world ’s cold year - round average temperature at -58.2 ° C ( -72 ° F ) . The station is inhume beneath the snow , but the formative statue is still seeable . If you dig down through the Methedrine , you ’ll find a favourable visitor ’s Holy Scripture to sign .
The photos were taken in 1965 ( Olav Orhelm / Norwegian Polar Institute – above ) and 2008 ( Stein Tronstad / Norwegian Polar Institute – below ) .
The Expedition used these “ Penguin ” tractors to accomplish the Pole of Inaccessibility . picture : N. Gvozdetsky
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Shackleton’s Hut, 1909
The famous explorer plainly will this fully stocked shanty behind after the British Nimrod Expedition ( 1907 - 1909 ) .
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Scott’s Hut, Ross Island, 1913
Robert Falcon Scott and his Terra Nova Expedition attempted to become the first people to hit the South Pole , but the Norwegian Roald Amundsen beat them by only a calendar month . On the return journeying , Scott and the other expedition extremity buy the farm from uttermost cold , starvation , and debilitation , but their army hut , fill up with lots of food , rock oil , and other good , remains .
Later the building was used by Sir Ernest Shackleton ( during the Imperial Trans Arctic Expedition , 1914 - 1917 ) , and his supply are still there , as well .
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Base W, Detaille Island, 1956-1959
It was estabilished for meteorologic and geological studies in 1956 , but has veen unmanned since 1959 .
A stuffed penguin and some penguin egg
( pic by Kevin Fox and Rachel Lea Fox , viaantarctic Charles James Fox 1–2 )
Grytviken, South Georgia
The settlement was established in 1904 by a Norwegian ocean police chief as a whaling station for his fishing company . It was closed in December 1966 , but the church is still used occasionally for wedlock .
The people had their own film ( the photo above was taken in 1993 ) , but it collapsed few years ago .
( viaWikimedia Commons 1–2andDS World ’s Lands )
Leith Harbour or Port Leith, 1909-1965
This was once the world ’s largest whaling center , but has been totally empty since 1965 . The station housed a depository library , a cinema , and a infirmary .
There is a ordnance mount on the hill behind the station , and another with the original 4.1′ hitman on the west side of the harbour .
( viaPenguinspiritandPeter Smith )
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