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ARA Chiriguano left Deception Island on the 16th to assist ARA Sanavirón (also a trawler) which was trying to return to Ushuaia at 2 knots per hour after three of its propeller blades suffered damage hitting a chunk of ice in the vicinity of Hope Bay, 186km (115 miles) from Deception Island. [5]
Deception Station is an Argentine base located at Deception Island. The station was founded on 25 January 1948 and was a year-round station until December 1967, when volcanic eruptions forced the evacuation of the base.
The island experienced severe volcanic activity in 1967, 1969, and 1970. Gabriel de Castilla Base , a Spanish research station, was constructed on Deception Island in the late 1980s. Deception Island has also been home to scientific stations run by Argentina, Chile, Spain, and the United Kingdom.
He appeared in the films Deception, Island of Lost Souls, People Will Talk, Nothing Sacred and The Buccaneer. [ 1 ] He died of lung cancer on June 26, 1971, in Chicago , Illinois at age 78.
In 1911, the government of the Falkland Islands Dependencies granted the Hektor Whaling Company (based in Tønsberg, Norway) a license to establish a whaling station on the coast of Deception Island. The purpose of the factory, which was built in 1912 on 500 acres of land, was to more efficiently extract oil from whale corpses.
He then decided Deception Island might be a better target destination. This lay far to the west, toward the South Shetland Islands , but Shackleton thought it might be attainable by island-hopping. Its advantage was that it was sometimes visited by whalers and might contain provisions, whereas Clarence Island and Elephant Island were desolate ...
Disney's Treasure Island — which was later renamed Discovery Island — closed in 1999, and no one seems to know why. Mental Floss theorizes it closed because the super-popular attraction Animal ...
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