Connected Sites
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"..abandoned since 1930. When the last residents of the United Kingdom’s remotest islands requested evacuation to the mainland, they left behind a traditional Scottish coastal village which now lies in ruins."
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"Neither accidents nor natural disasters were the ultimate cause of Sewell’s abandonment. Instead, it was nationalization by the Allende government that brought about the town’s demise. In 1977, after six years of state ownership, the National Copper Corporation of Chile began to move families out of Sewell."
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The Saltpeter towns were completely and totally abandoned by 1960, after the demand for natural sodium nitrate had been replaced by industrial nitrogen
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Hashima: "Mitsubishi closed the mine, everyone left, and this island city was abandoned, left to revert back to nature."
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