Deception Island: In 1906 a Norwegian-Chilean whaling company started using Whalers Bay as a base for a factory ship. Other whaling operations followed suit and a boom town was born. Whalers Bay was abandoned in 1931 following a precipitous decline in the market for whale oil, a result of the Great Depression (via Dark Roasted Blend: The Ghosts of Antarctica: Abandoned Stations and Huts
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