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Wrangel Island Soviet military presence pollution
8 Comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Nature, Photos, Regions
Wrangel Island is Russian island located in Arctic Ocean between East-Siberian and Chukotskoye Seas (Chukotka autonomous okrug). The island is the part of Wrangel natural reserve and has the status of UNESCO World Heritage from 2004.
Unfortunately like a lot of other territories of Russian Arctic the region was used as Soviet military outpost and here is the result. The photos were captured by Gorshkov Sergey.
Tags: Abandoned · Chukotka okrug
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Austin Aubinoe · December 27, 2010 at 11:23 pm
Wow that is so cool. How long ago was it a military outpost?
Author comment by DeIntegro · December 28, 2010 at 3:41 pm
The radar station was closed in 1992.
Dimitriy · December 31, 2010 at 1:56 pm
Awesome photos!!!
Lee · January 1, 2011 at 1:33 am
That’s tragic that a world heritage site is left in such horrific conditions. Very dangerous for the fauna and flora. Yes, nice photos, but they should not have that in their environment.
Amobi Oko · March 19, 2012 at 3:20 pm
what a sight to behold with it’s huge mountainous landscape.
jason · October 9, 2022 at 7:15 am
just think of all the multimillionaires that could have this cleaned up for a few million
Ferhat · January 29, 2024 at 1:09 pm
С этой работой справятся даже несколько волонтеров!
Zuzu · January 24, 2023 at 2:37 am
Can anything be done about this? Has anyone tried? Is it anyone’s jurisdiction to fix besides the Shadowhunters?