Humberstone was pretty awesome. Humberstone was a town formed to service the nitrate boom and it boomed from 1872, and the office was ceremonially locked in the 1960's. Once upon a time, Nitrate was Chile's number one export, but synthetic nitrate ended the boom times. The ghost-town is very much intact and UNESCO listed.
Chilean Nitrate was sent all and the world.
This was the oldest of the buildings and is in remarkably good condition. It housed single workers.
The three level diving board on the big deep swimming pool, made from ship parts. There is a lot of graffiti too.
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