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Poster: Mike
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Abandoned machinery, oil drums and scrap metal litter the landscape around the old Soviet research station 'Leningradskaya' in Oates Land, abandoned in 1992. It would cost $$$'s to clean this place up (as it's 20 miles inland and on top of a 1,000 ft nunatak) - so instead it remains, like Scott and Shakleton's Huts, a frozen time capsule of man's impact on the fragile Antarctic environment. |
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· Date: Sun, 9, April, 2006 · Views: 47397 · Filesize: 43.8kb, 451.1kb · Dimensions: 2500 x 1667 ·
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Paul Ward
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Registered: December 2005
Location: Cambridgeshire UK
Posts: 232
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Mon, 10, April, 2006 7:09pm
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Sites like this are all too common where there are old abandonded bases, it's only in the last about 10 years or less, that refuse has been taken out of Antarctica.
I guess the only saving graces are that these sites are hardly ever visited and there's little wildlife around many of them to be harmed by them. In time maybe some will become sites of historical interest like Scott and Shackleton's huts. There are already huts from the 1950's that have been designated as Historic Sites and Monuments.
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Mike
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Registered: November 2004
Location: Wales, UK
Posts: 12
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Mon, 10, April, 2006 9:58pm
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You're right Paul - when we returned from visiting this base, there was a fairly heated discussion in the ship's bar that night about whether / how Leningradskaya should be cleaned up (and how we might persuade the Russians to pay for it!). But the good point was also made that in 100 years time it will still be there as an archeological relic of Soviet antarctic research.
How would we have felt if the historic huts of Scott, Shackleton and Borchgrevinck had been removed in the 1950s as 'eyesores', given the wonderful experiences that we had enjoyed of visiting them also?
On balance, it's probably best to leave things as they are - it is after all a very small blot on a VERY large landscape...
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