Remnants of human activities are often expensive and difficult to remove. Rusting and leaking oil these old vehicles had been waiting for years on the beach to be brought out of Antarctica. With support from the NGO Mission Antarctica the vehicles have been removed for recycling in South America in 2002.
(Fildes Peninsula, King George Island).
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