Dear Professor Sampath Kumar:
Thank you for sending the attachment regarding unique graveyards.
It is very revealing and thought-provoking.
Regards.
Professor S P Agarwal
On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 5:12 AM, K. Sampath Kumar <sampathkumarubi@yahoo.co.in> wrote:
--Dear friends,
Good morning.
10 Unique graveyards.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1. Aircraft Boneyard , USAThe 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG),often called The Boneyard is located near Davis Monthan Air Force Basein Tucson , Arizona . For those of you that have never seen it, it's difficultto comprehend the size of it.
The number of aircraft stored there and the precision in the way they areparked is impressive. Another important fact is that they are all capable ofbeing returned to service if the need ever arises.AMARG is a controlled-access site, and is off-limits to anyone not employedthere without the proper clearance. The only access for non-cleared individualsis 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 Yardare very popular attractions in the Arizona desert.2. Ship Graveyard , MauritaniaThe city of Nouadhibouis the second largest city in Mauritania and serves as thecountry's Commercial center. It is famous for being the location of one of the largestship 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 thatMauritanian harbour officers were taking bribes and allowing ships to bediscarded in the harbour and around the bay. This phenomenon startedin 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 overthese phantom beaches there are people living inside the huge merchant boats.
3. Train Cemetery , BoliviaOne of the major tourist attractions of south western Bolivia is an antique traincemetery. It is located 3 km (1.9 MI) outside Uyuni and is connected to it by theold train tracks. The town served in the past as a distribution hub for the trains carryingminerals on their way to the Pacific Ocean ports.The train lines were built by British engineers who arrived near the end of the 19thcentury and formed a sizeable community in Uyuni. The rail construction started in1888 and ended in 1892.The trains were mostly used by the mining companies. In the 1940s, the miningindustry collapsed, partly due to the mineral depletion. Many trains were abandonedthereby producing the train cemetery. There are talks to builda museum out of the cemetery.
4. Vozdvizhenka Aircraft Graveyard , RussiaLittered with at least 18 gutted Tupolev Tu-22M Backfires of the 444th HeavyBomber Regiment, Vozdvizhenka air base resembles a post-apocalyptic landscape.Entering this barren place, located near Ussuriysk in the Primorsky Krai regionof 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 theBelaya 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 theairfield is the aviation commandant of Khurba airbase and the 322 Aircraft Repair Factory.
5. Anchor Graveyard , PortugalAmong the dunes of Tavira island, in Portugal , there's an impressive anchor graveyardcalled the Cemitério das Âncoras. It was built in remembrance of the glorioustradition of tuna fishing with large nets fixed with these anchors, a fishingtechnique already invented by the Phoenicians.Tavira used to be a place devoted to the tuna fishing. They built up this anchorgraveyard to remember those who had to quit their occupation when the bigfish abandoned the coasts.
6. Soviet Tank Graveyard , AfghanistanOn the outskirts of Kabul , Afghanistan there's a massive collection of abandonedSoviet battle Vehicles left behind after the failure of a massive eastern blocmilitary 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-downtanks back home, so now they sit, partially stripped and covered in graffiti.Afghanistan has few recycling facilities, so this cemetery of tanks will likely remainwhere 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 , RussiaThe area around Nezametnaya Cove, close to the town of Gadzhiyevo , in MurmanskOblast on the Kola Peninsula , is a cemetery where is located a lot of old Russiansubmarines. After serving their duty underwater, the submarines were brought to thisrestricted-access zone in the 1970s, and then forgotten.Locals said that some of the old submarines were used for target practice in militaryexercises and often sunk, an employment of the old "out of sight, out of mind" strategy.Others were simply left inthe bay to rust and rot, floating to the surface like so many whale carcasses.
8. Moynaq Ship Graveyard , UzbekistanMoynaq is a city in northern Karakalpakstan in western Uzbekistan . Home to onlya few thousand residents at most, Moynoq's population has been declining precipitouslysince the 1980s due to the receding of the Aral Sea .Once a bustling fishing community and Uzbekistan 's only port city with tens ofthousands of residents, Moynoq is now a shadow of its former self, dozens of kilometersfrom the rapidly receding shoreline of the Aral Sea .For travellers the main reason to visit Moynaq is to see the ship graveyard, a collection ofrusting hulks that were once the town's fishing fleet. It's an image that perfectly illustratesthe disaster - once proud vessels beached in a sandy desert.Unfortunately there aren't many left, as scrap metal companies made short work ofthem before the tourism authorities forbade it. In one final kick for a local populationalready "downed", the money didn't go to the people who owned the boats; it wasdivided up between the scrap companies and government officials.9. Taxi Graveyard , China
Thousands of scrapped taxis are abandoned in a yard in the center ofChongqing , China . Traffic congestion and pollution have worsened dramaticallyin Chinese cities because the country's long-running economic expansion hasallowed 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 , UKThis phone booth graveyard is located between Ripon and Thirsk, near the village ofCarlton Miniott, UK. There are located hundreds of disused telephone booths.Decommissioned old red booths are systematically replaced by new modern booths, anddeposited 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
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