[MTC Global] 10 UNIQUE GRAVE YARDS

Dear friends,

Good morning.

10 Unique graveyards.

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1. Aircraft Boneyard , USA

 

 

The 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG), 

often called The Boneyard is located near Davis Monthan Air Force Base 

in Tucson , Arizona . For those of you that have never seen it, it's difficult

 to comprehend the size of it.

 

The number of aircraft stored there and the precision in the way they are 

parked is impressive. Another important fact is that they are all capable of 

being returned to service if the need ever arises.

 

 

AMARG is a controlled-access site, and is off-limits to anyone not employed 

there without the proper clearance. The only access for non-cleared individuals 

is via a bus tour which is conducted by the nearby Pima Air & Space Museum .

 Bus tours are Monday through Friday only. Both the museum and the Bone Yard

 are very popular attractions in the Arizona desert.

 

2. Ship Graveyard , Mauritania

 

 

The city of Nouadhibouis the second largest city in Mauritania and serves as the 

country's Commercial center. It is famous for being the location of one of the largest

 ship graveyard in the world. Hundreds of rusting ships can be seen all around,

 in the water and on beaches.

 

 

One of the most commonly read explanation for that situation is that 

Mauritanian harbour officers were taking bribes and allowing ships to be 

discarded in the harbour and around the bay. This phenomenon started 

in the 80's after the nationalization of the Mauritanian fishing industry,

numerous uneconomical ships were simply abandoned there.

 

 

The city of Nouadhibou is one of the poorest locations in the world. Right over

 these phantom beaches there are people living inside the huge merchant boats.

3. Train Cemetery , Bolivia

 

 

One of the major tourist attractions of south western Bolivia is an antique train 

cemetery. It is located 3 km (1.9 MI) outside Uyuni and is connected to it by the

 old train tracks. The town served in the past as a distribution hub for the trains carrying

 minerals on their way to the Pacific Ocean ports.

 

 

The train lines were built by British engineers who arrived near the end of the 19th 

century and formed a sizeable community in Uyuni. The rail construction started in

 1888 and ended in 1892.

 

 

The trains were mostly used by the mining companies. In the 1940s, the mining

 industry collapsed, partly due to the mineral depletion. Many trains were abandoned

 thereby producing the train cemetery. There are talks to build 

a museum out of the cemetery.

4. Vozdvizhenka Aircraft Graveyard , Russia

 

 

Littered with at least 18 gutted Tupolev Tu-22M Backfires of the 444th Heavy 

Bomber Regiment, Vozdvizhenka air base resembles a post-apocalyptic landscape.

 Entering this barren place, located near Ussuriysk in the Primorsky Krai region

 of Far East Russia, 60 miles (95 km) north of Vladivostok and 40 miles (65 km)

from the Chinese border, is like taking a step back in time.

 

 

The 444th Regiment was disbanded in 2009, with some aircraft transferred to the 

Belaya Air Base and others dismantled 

(removed engines, equipment, and with holes cut in the fuselage).

 

 

The aircraft carcasses are awaiting final metal cutting. Currently based at the 

airfield is the aviation commandant of Khurba airbase and the 322 Aircraft Repair Factory.

5. Anchor Graveyard , Portugal

 

 

Among the dunes of  Tavira island, in Portugal , there's an impressive anchor graveyard

 called the Cemitério das Âncoras. It was built in remembrance of the glorious

 tradition of tuna fishing with large nets fixed with these anchors, a fishing 

technique already invented by the Phoenicians.

 

 

Tavira used to be a place devoted to the tuna fishing. They built up this anchor 

graveyard to remember those who had to quit their occupation when the big

 fish abandoned the coasts.

6. Soviet Tank Graveyard , Afghanistan

 

 

On the outskirts of Kabul , Afghanistan there's a massive collection of abandoned

 Soviet battle Vehicles left behind after the failure of a massive eastern bloc 

military occupation of the country in the 1970's and 1980's.

 

 

The Soviets left in a hurry and could not be bothered to find a way to get broken-down 

tanks back home, so now they sit, partially stripped and covered in graffiti.

 

 

Afghanistan has few recycling facilities, so this cemetery of tanks will likely remain 

where it is for many more years as a reminder of the Russian invasion.

(Gives one cause to wonder where the American tank graveyard will be!)

7. Submarine Graveyard , Russia

 

 

The area around Nezametnaya Cove, close to the town of Gadzhiyevo , in Murmansk

 Oblast on the Kola Peninsula , is a cemetery where is located a lot of old Russian 

submarines. After serving their duty underwater, the submarines were brought to this

 restricted-access zone in the 1970s, and then forgotten.

 

 

Locals said that some of the old submarines were used for target practice in military 

exercises and often sunk, an employment of the old "out of sight, out of mind" strategy.

 Others were simply left in

the bay to rust and rot, floating to the surface like so many whale carcasses.

8. Moynaq Ship Graveyard , Uzbekistan

 

 

Moynaq is a city in northern Karakalpakstan in western Uzbekistan . Home to only 

a few thousand residents at most, Moynoq's population has been declining precipitously

 since the 1980s due to the receding of the Aral Sea .

 

 

Once a bustling fishing community and Uzbekistan 's only port city with tens of 

thousands of residents, Moynoq is now a shadow of its former self, dozens of kilometers

 from the rapidly receding shoreline of the Aral Sea .

 

 

For travellers the main reason to visit Moynaq is to see the ship graveyard, a collection of 

rusting hulks that were once the town's fishing fleet. It's an image that perfectly illustrates

the disaster - once proud vessels beached in a sandy desert.

 

 

Unfortunately there aren't many left, as scrap metal companies made short work of

 them before the tourism authorities forbade it. In one final kick for a local population 

already "downed", the money didn't go  to the people who owned the boats; it was 

divided up between the scrap companies and government officials.

 

9. Taxi Graveyard , China

 

Thousands of scrapped taxis are abandoned in a yard in the center of 

Chongqing , China . Traffic congestion and pollution have worsened dramatically

 in Chinese cities because the country's long-running economic expansion has

 allowed increasing numbers of consumers to make big-ticket purchases such as cars,

 which means many no longer have to rely on taxis or public transportation.

 

 

10. Phone Booth Graveyard , UK

 

This phone booth graveyard is located between Ripon and Thirsk, near the village of 

Carlton Miniott, UK. There are located hundreds of disused telephone booths.

 

 

Decommissioned old red booths are systematically replaced by new modern booths, and

 deposited in one site near this English village.

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With regards,

 

Dr. K. Sampath Kumar,  B.A. (Economics), BGL, M.Com., M.Phil., Cert. A.I.I.B.,
                                        MBA (Finance), MBA (HR & Marketing),  ACS, FCMA, Ph. D.,
Professor, SSN School of Management
C/o. SSN College of Engineering
Rajiv Gandhi Salai (OMR)
KALAVAKKAM - 603110
Kancheepuram District, Tamil Nadu, India
Landline :  044-24860668
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