"Gukanjima - View of an Abandoned Island"

軍艦島 Gukanjima __in Japan


远看像軍艦!!!!

其实"她"本身是一个大珊瑚瞧. 1810年因发现石油而成为一个开发的人工小岛. 直到1974年开发完毕,所有居民撤离...

就这样一直荒废.被遗忘了...

整个小岛的建设还在,甚至很多日常生活的物件, 像是时钟停顿了三十年..最近才有人去拍照..

看看照片很精彩..

















































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Off the westernmost coast of Japan, is an island called "Gunkanjima" that is hardly known even to the Japanese. Long ago, the island was nothing more than a small reef. Then in 1810, the chance discovery of coal drastically changed the fate of this reef. As reclamation began, people came to live here, and through coal mining the reef started to expand continuously. Befor long, the reef had grown into an artificial island of one kilometer (three quarters of a mile) in perimeter, with a population of 5300. Looming above the ocean, it appeared a concrete labyrinth of many-storied apartment houses and mining structures built closely together. Seen from the ocean, the silhouette of the island closely resembled a battleship - so, the island came to be called Gunkanjima, or Battleship island.

I was twenty-two when I first visited the island I had dreamed about ever since childhood. Much like a fortress built upon the sea, surrounded by high walls,the island possessed an air of a small kingdom, where its denizens boasted "There is nothing we don't have here." They were right. They did have everything within their miniature kingdom - except a cemetery. But, the irony of it was proven by the passag e of time. Already, the island had been doomed to turn into an enormous graveyard.

Eventually, the mines faced an end, and in 1974 the world's once most densely populated island become totally deserted. The island, after all its inhabitants departed leaving behind their belongings, became an empty shell of a city where all its peopl disappeared overnight, as if by some mysterious act of God...

excerpt from web site: http://www.ne.jp/asahi/saiga/yuji/gallary/gunsu/g-text-e.html

more photos from web site: http://www.ne.jp/asahi/saiga/yuji/gallary/menu-e.html