Mount Tumbledown
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Battle site from 1982 war. Heavily mined.
If you zoom in, you can see the rectangular strips where the demining crews have used maps to manually excavate the peat several feet down to remove strings of mines. The mines contain only tiny amounts of metal, making normal methods ineffective.
If you zoom in, you can see the rectangular strips where the demining crews have used maps to manually excavate the peat several feet down to remove strings of mines. The mines contain only tiny amounts of metal, making normal methods ineffective.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mount_Tumbledown
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Coordinates: 51°41'57"S 57°57'27"W
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