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A ghost town east of Iqueque has remnants of the nitrate heyday when saltpeter was mined in the late 19th and early 20th century. Now deserted, Humberstone, was once a model company mining town offered tennis and basketball courts, a swimming pool and theater. The remains are preserved in the dry Atacama desert of Chile.
- Copyright
- MELISSA FARLOW
- Image Size
- 5271x3600 / 4.8MB
- Keywords
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boom towns, chile, color image, day, dead trees, front view, full frame, ghost towns, humberstone, industry and production, iqueque, large number of objects, man made patterns, man made patterns (visual), nitrate industry, nitrate industry and production, no people, outdoors, patterns, photography, plant growth and decay, plant physiology, plants, remains, ruins, ruins and remains, south america, structures, three quarter length, towns, travel destination, tree branches, trees, visual
- Contained in galleries
- Long Road South BOOK_National Geographic 1/1999
