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A deserted airplane hangar in Whalers Bay on Deception Island, abandoned when the island volcano erupted in the late 1960s. Deception Island is one of the South Shetland Islands, located to the west of the Antarctic Peninsula. An Antarctic fur seal lounges on the beach in front of the hangar.
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