mr president
fantastic
for i swear i had a feeling youd have to have been there
right on the cutting edge of everyones land
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BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Grant Hutchison
<granthutchison@b...>" <granthutchison@b...> wrote:
> > http://www.70south.com/resources/islands/deception2.jpg
> >
> ...
> > this evidently real pic was taken in a real but unbelievable
place
> > actually called deception island
> > in the formerly british but now everyonese south shetlands
> Been there, done that. It's more believable if you know that the
> water and sand are heated by volcanic activity - you have to be
> careful not to boil a foot along that section of beach. Behind the
> group, to the left of the picture, are the ruins of a Chilean base
> that was hit by a pyroclastic flow in the (I think) 1960s,
> fortunately after the personnel had been evacuated - an
amazing
> wreckage of twisted girders. Farther up the beach, behind the
> photographer, is a British base similarly abandoned.
>
> Grant