Scenes from our visit earlier this month to Gunkanjima / 軍艦島 (‘Battleship Island’) off the coast of Nagasaki.
The island was developed by Mitsubishi as a coal mine, starting in the Meiji Period and growing to the point where the workforce & their families housed on the tiny island apparently made it the most densely-populated place on earth.
When the main shaft flooded in the 1970s, it was too expensive to recover, and the island was abandoned, falling into ruins.
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