The Ghosts of Antarctica

Posted by Miss Cellania in Pictures, Travel & Places on December 10, 2008 at 10:15 am



Dark Roasted Blend has lots of pictures of abandoned places in Antarctica, where the trouble to remove material is high and the low temperatures curb natural destruction. There’s also a lot of strange facts about the continent.

While the South Pole and environs doesn’t have a permanent population, there are on average 2,500 people living there during the year — approximately 4000 in summer and 1000 incredibly hardy ones in winter (source). While no complete necrologies exists for the Antarctic, at least 268 people have died there since humanity first decided it was a good place to visit. So if the ghosts divvie the work evenly, each one only has to haunt 9.68992 inhabitants.

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5 comments to "The Ghosts of Antarctica"

  1. Gail Pink
    December 10th, 2008 at 12:46 pm

    This photo reminds me of some of the images conjured in my mind while reading Cormack McCarthy's "The Road." Very cool stuff.

  2. diego
    December 10th, 2008 at 1:22 pm

    it's divvy

  3. Rocky Rook
    December 10th, 2008 at 2:20 pm

    Those are some incredible pictures. So post-apocalyptic.

  4. Ali S.
    December 10th, 2008 at 3:37 pm

    Ooooh the idea of finding meteorites in that place give me the jibblies. Just thinking of it makes me remember the movie The Thing and the dilapidated scenes of an old whaling town in the horrible Alien vs. Predator movie

  5. mkultra
    December 11th, 2008 at 8:43 am

    Of course there are also the secret Nazi UFO bases in Neuschwabenland to consider.


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