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Spotlight on Deception Island: Ghosts of Adventurers Past
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Spotlight on Deception Island: Ghosts of Adventurers Past

Just off the northwest Antarctic Peninsula in the South Shetland Islands lies Deception Island, once a bustling sealing and whaling station. One of the safest harbours in Antarctica, it’s been a place of science and military interests from Britain, Chile, and Argentina, but was deserted when volcanic eruptions destroyed British Base B in 1969.
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