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7 REMOTE Abandoned Places and Machines
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From tiny desolate islands, to top secret russian bases, these are Remote Abandoned Places and Machines
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7.Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky-54 | Russia
This incredible ghost town was a secret Soviet submarine base established during the Cold War at a time of deep tensions with the West. Today it has become a hard-to-reach tourist attraction on the Kamchatka peninsula, better known as Russia's Land of Fire and Ice for its volcanoes and glaciers.
The base was constructed in the 1960s for submarines of the Soviet Pacific Fleet. It was codenamed Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky-54, after the nearest town and the last two digits of the base's post code. Which doesn’t so top secret to me but whatever.
The site was remote and in the winter could only be reached by boat, helicopter and sledge.
The site had eight three- to five-storey accommodation blocks, a headquarters building, a school, supermarket, post office, leisure centre, boilerhouse, stores warehouses and a refuelling facility. All of that was serviced and restocked once a week by a supply ship from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
The site suffered a severe fire in 1987. The naval base was abandoned in 1996 and the submarines transferred to a nearby facility.
After its abandonment the site became a ghost town with a beached former supply ship greeting visitors who dare to explore here.
In May 2020, the former naval base was selected as a site for a new liquified natural gas transhipment hub for Novatek. It is intended to handle (20,000,000 t) of product per year,and the work is forecast to cost $1.5 billion, so we will see if anything ever changes here.
6.Múli | Faroe Islands
It's not everyday you stumble across a 14th century village in one of the most inhospitable and remote regions of the world, and even less likely, is the fact that the village was the birthplace of one the most famous “wizards” of the area. Guttorm í Múla, was born in 1657 and quickly became a local legend when he used his supernatural powers to help his neighbours. Its not clear how powerful, or what level wizard he was, but hey. It was the 1600s, who gives a crap.
In the 20th century the village experienced a rapid depopulation. To combat this, the government built a road to the town, but it sadly did not help any. At this point, the village is nothing more than a ghost town, with a total population of 4, as of 2002. One of the houses from the village was transported to the Open Air Museum in Belgium, as it exemplified architecture and building techniques from its time perfectly.
5.The Maunsell Sea Forts | England
Apart from looking absolutely badass, these sea forts served a real, important purpose during the war. In 1942 Guy Maunsell figured out a way to build a fort on land and transfer it to sea easily, so that's how we ended up with 4 navy and 3 army forts in the Thames Estuary. Each of the towers stood on four concrete legs. The buildings on top of these legs were made of steel, had two floors, and measured 36 feet by 36 feet.
At any given time, there were 265 men stationed at each fort. You can imagine how freaking desolate, cold and dangerous it was, but hey, you gotta do what you gotta do when your country is being mercilessly bombed by the Axis powers. It wasn’t without purpose either, while in operation, the forts shot down 22 planes and 30 bombs.
In the summers of 2007 and 2008 Red Sands Radio, a station commemorating the pirate radio stations of the 1960s, operated from the Red Sands fort on 28-day Restricted Service Licences. The fort was subsequently declared unsafe, and Red Sands Radio has moved its operations ashore to Whitstable.
Many of you have probably heard about the Principality of Sealand and the absolute madlad that formed it, Roy Bates, who among other things, was a pirate radio broadcaster and a major in the British Army during WW 2.
In 1966 Roy and a friend took over the Rough Sands fort and started broadcasting their sweet sweet pirate radio stations. Long story short, Roy got in a fight with his friend, his friend left, and later came back to claim the fort as his own. Roy defended himself from the attack but was promptly arrested. As the trial went on, it was found out that the fort was in international waters, thus not under the jurisdiction of the British court system. Roy Bates took this as de facto recognition of his country and seven years later issued a constitution, flag, and national anthem, among other things, for the Principality of Sealand.
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7.Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky-54 | Russia
This incredible ghost town was a secret Soviet submarine base established during the Cold War at a time of deep tensions with the West. Today it has become a hard-to-reach tourist attraction on the Kamchatka peninsula, better known as Russia's Land of Fire and Ice for its volcanoes and glaciers.
The base was constructed in the 1960s for submarines of the Soviet Pacific Fleet. It was codenamed Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky-54, after the nearest town and the last two digits of the base's post code. Which doesn’t so top secret to me but whatever.
The site was remote and in the winter could only be reached by boat, helicopter and sledge.
The site had eight three- to five-storey accommodation blocks, a headquarters building, a school, supermarket, post office, leisure centre, boilerhouse, stores warehouses and a refuelling facility. All of that was serviced and restocked once a week by a supply ship from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
The site suffered a severe fire in 1987. The naval base was abandoned in 1996 and the submarines transferred to a nearby facility.
After its abandonment the site became a ghost town with a beached former supply ship greeting visitors who dare to explore here.
In May 2020, the former naval base was selected as a site for a new liquified natural gas transhipment hub for Novatek. It is intended to handle (20,000,000 t) of product per year,and the work is forecast to cost $1.5 billion, so we will see if anything ever changes here.
6.Múli | Faroe Islands
It's not everyday you stumble across a 14th century village in one of the most inhospitable and remote regions of the world, and even less likely, is the fact that the village was the birthplace of one the most famous “wizards” of the area. Guttorm í Múla, was born in 1657 and quickly became a local legend when he used his supernatural powers to help his neighbours. Its not clear how powerful, or what level wizard he was, but hey. It was the 1600s, who gives a crap.
In the 20th century the village experienced a rapid depopulation. To combat this, the government built a road to the town, but it sadly did not help any. At this point, the village is nothing more than a ghost town, with a total population of 4, as of 2002. One of the houses from the village was transported to the Open Air Museum in Belgium, as it exemplified architecture and building techniques from its time perfectly.
5.The Maunsell Sea Forts | England
Apart from looking absolutely badass, these sea forts served a real, important purpose during the war. In 1942 Guy Maunsell figured out a way to build a fort on land and transfer it to sea easily, so that's how we ended up with 4 navy and 3 army forts in the Thames Estuary. Each of the towers stood on four concrete legs. The buildings on top of these legs were made of steel, had two floors, and measured 36 feet by 36 feet.
At any given time, there were 265 men stationed at each fort. You can imagine how freaking desolate, cold and dangerous it was, but hey, you gotta do what you gotta do when your country is being mercilessly bombed by the Axis powers. It wasn’t without purpose either, while in operation, the forts shot down 22 planes and 30 bombs.
In the summers of 2007 and 2008 Red Sands Radio, a station commemorating the pirate radio stations of the 1960s, operated from the Red Sands fort on 28-day Restricted Service Licences. The fort was subsequently declared unsafe, and Red Sands Radio has moved its operations ashore to Whitstable.
Many of you have probably heard about the Principality of Sealand and the absolute madlad that formed it, Roy Bates, who among other things, was a pirate radio broadcaster and a major in the British Army during WW 2.
In 1966 Roy and a friend took over the Rough Sands fort and started broadcasting their sweet sweet pirate radio stations. Long story short, Roy got in a fight with his friend, his friend left, and later came back to claim the fort as his own. Roy defended himself from the attack but was promptly arrested. As the trial went on, it was found out that the fort was in international waters, thus not under the jurisdiction of the British court system. Roy Bates took this as de facto recognition of his country and seven years later issued a constitution, flag, and national anthem, among other things, for the Principality of Sealand.
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