List of ghost towns

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The following is a list of ghost towns.

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[edit] Antarctica and sub-Antarctic islands

Deception Island, a Chilean-Norwegian whaling settlement.

[edit] South Georgia

Grytviken, a Norwegian whaling settlement on the United Kingdom territory of South Georgia
Husvik
Leith Harbour
Ocean Harbour
Prince Olav Harbour
Stromness

[edit] Australia

Ballara, Queensland
Betoota, Queensland
Big Bell, Western Australia, Western Australia
Boydtown, New South Wales was originally settled and then abandoned in the 1840s. It remained abandoned until the 1930s. It is now a growing town with commercial and residential developments.
Broad Arrow, north of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Cassilis, Victoria
Cook, South Australia
Copperfield, Queensland
Cossack, Western Australia
Crotty, Tasmania
Farina, South Australia
Glen Davis, New South Wales
Goldsworthy, Western Australia
Gwalia, north of Kalgoorlie and 4 km south of Leonora, Western Australia
Hill End, New South Wales was never fully abandoned and is now a popular tourist town.
Iron Baron, South Australia was a former mining town.
Jay Creek, Northern Territory
Joadja, near Mittagong, New South Wales
Kanowna, near Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Kiandra, New South Wales
Linda, Tasmania
Malcolm, Western Australia, east of Leonora, Western Australia
Mary Kathleen, Former mining town, 55 km from Mount Isa and 62 km from Cloncurry
Maytown,_Queensland, in the Palmer River goldfields, Queensland
Moliagul, 202 km north west from Melbourne, Victoria
Mount Britton, Queensland
Mount Mulligan, Queensland
Nannine, Western Australia
Newnes, New South Wales
Old Tallangatta, Victoria, most of the township was moved 5 miles west due to the enlargement of Lake Hume. The current township of Tallangatta has approximately 1,000 residents.
Ophir, New South Wales
Ora Banda, Western Australia
Pillinger, Tasmania
Silverton, near Broken Hill New South Wales
Tarcoon, New South Wales
Walhalla, Victoria in the Baw Baw mountains. The town was never fully abandoned and has now become a popular tourist town.
Western Tyers, Victoria
Wittenoom, Western Australia
Yerranderie, in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales

[edit] Cambodia

Angkor Wat and vicinity [1]
Bokor Hill Station

[edit] Canada

Main article: List of ghost towns in Canada

[edit] Chile

Chaitén
Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works
Puerto Hambre (also called Port Famine or literally Port of Hunger)
Sewell, Chile

[edit] Costa Rica

Cinchona (Sarapiquí, Alajuela), destroyed by a 6.2 earthquake on January 8th, 2009. 25 people dead, 5 missing.

[edit] Cyprus

Varosha (Famagusta), region of Famagusta

[edit] Faroe Islands

Blankskáli, Kalsoy
Fossá, Borðoy
Múli, Borðoy
Skarð, Kunoy
Skarvanes, Sandoy
Skálatoftir, northwesternmost village on Borðoy
Slættanes, Vágar
Strond, north of Ánir
Víkar, Vágar
Víkarbyrgi, Suðuroy

[edit] Finland

Jussarö, an old village near the Jussarö mines

[edit] France

Six of the French villages destroyed in World War I have never been rebuilt. All are found in the département of Meuse, and were destroyed during the Battle of Verdun in 1916:

Oradour-sur-Glane was destroyed by a Waffen-SS battalion during World War II and its population massacred. The village was subsequently rebuilt nearby, but the ruins of the old village have been preserved.

[edit] Germany

Bardowiek, now part of a National Park in Germany.

[edit] Guyana

Jonestown, created by cult leader Jim Jones. On November 18, 1978, he conducted a mass suicide with his cult, resulting in 913 of the 1,110 inhabitants dead.

[edit] Hungary

Derenk, in north-east Hungary, was depopulated between 1938-1943, so that the surrounding area could be used as hunting grounds for Admiral Horthy, regent of Hungary.

[edit] India

[edit] Iraq

Babylon

[edit] Iran

[edit] Ireland

Slievemore(Sliabh Mór)^[2]
Scattery Island

[edit] Iceland

Suðavik (Old)

[edit] Italy

Avi, Piemonte
Bussana Vecchia, Liguria
Melito Vecchio (Old Melito), Avellino, Campania
Campomaggiore (Potenza)
Civita di Bagnoregio, Lazio
Connio Vecchio (Old Connio), Piemonte
Consonno (Olginate, Lecco)
Craco (Matera)
Argentiera (Sassari, Sardinia)
Pentedattilo, Calabria
Poggioreale, Sicily
Rivarossa, Piemonte
Roghudi Vecchio (Old Roghudi), Calabria
Tocco Caudio, Benevento, Campania

[edit] Ivory Coast

Grand-Bassam

[edit] Japan

Hashima Island

[edit] México

Real de Catorce, San Luis Potosí
San Antonio de la Iguana, Nuevo León, Lat 26° 53' 60N, Long 100° 13' 0W
San Juan Parangaricutiro, Michoacán Abandoned due to Paricutin volcano

[edit] Montserrat

Plymouth
St. Patrick's

[edit] Namibia

Kolmanskop and Elizabeth Bay old Diamond mining town

[edit] Netherlands

Schokland

[edit] New Zealand

Te Wairoa, also called 'The Buried Village', a small Māori village that was destroyed by The Eruption of Mount Tarawera.

[edit] Norway

Pyramiden, a Russian settlement on Svalbard

[edit] Pakistan

Amri (Fortified town between 3600 to 3300 BC)
Chanhudaro (Settlement between 4000-1700 BC)
Ganeriwala (Urban center around 3000 BC)
Harappa (Fortified city between 3300-1600 BC)
Kot Diji (Ancient site about 3000 BC)
Mehrgarh (Ancient settlement around 7000 BC)
Mohenjo Daro (Ancient city about 2600-1700 BC)
Sokhta Koh (Harappan settlement around 2600-1900 BC)
Takht Bhai (Remains of a famous Buddhist monastery from the 1st century CE)

[edit] Poland

Kłomino

[edit] Russia

Mangazeya
Tmutarakan excavated town (not really ghost town)

Historical towns whose existences have not been proven

Atil - exact location is unknown, Dmitri Vasilyev of Astrakhan State University believes that he might have found either Atil or Saqsin
Ksnyatin (submerged under the Uglich Reservoir)
Mologa (submerged under the Rybinsk Reservoir)
Sarai Berke - exact location is unknown, known that used to be 10 times larger than London in the 14th century
Sarkel (submerged under the Tsimlyansk Reservoir)

[edit] Saudi Arabia

[edit] Spain

Belchite, Zaragoza, Aragón
La Cornudilla, Valencia
Erillcastell, near El Pont de Suert, Catalonia
Esperan, near El Pont de Suert, Catalonia
Llombai in the Vall de Gallinera, Alicante
Ochate, Condado de Treviño, Burgos, Castilla y León
Fiscal, Towns of Lacort, Jánovas and more in the region called "Solana de Fiscal" - Huesca (Aragón)
Peranera, near El Pont de Suert, Catalonia
Pernui in Sort, Lleida, Cataluña
Viuet, near El Pont de Suert, Catalonia

[edit] Taiwan

Sanzhi UFO houses

[edit] Turkey

[edit] Turkmenistan

[edit] Ukraine

Chernobyl (nuclear reactor disaster in 1986)
Pripyat (nuclear reactor disaster in 1986)
Kopachi - scraped town (nuclear reactor disaster in 1986)

[edit] United Kingdom

Ashopton, Derbyshire (under reservoir)
Derwent, Derbyshire (under reservoir)
Bothwellhaugh, North Lanarkshire (Under Strathclyde Loch)^[3]
Buckenham Tofts, Norfolk (taken over by Army in 1942)
Dunwich, Suffolk (under the sea)
Hallsands, Devon (destroyed by a storm in 1917)
Imber, Wiltshire (taken over by Army in 1943)
Knaptoft, Leicestershire (deserted in Seventeenth Century)
Lynford, Norfolk (taken over by Army in 1942)
Martinsthorpe, Rutland
Nether Hambleton and Middle Hambleton, Rutland (both under reservoir)
North Rona, a remote island in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland (evacuated in 1844)
Saint Kilda, an island off Scotland (evacuated in 1930)
Shipden, Norfolk (under the sea)
Stanford, Norfolk (taken over by Army in 1942)
Sturston, Norfolk (taken over by Army in 1942)
Tide Mills, East Sussex
Tottington, Norfolk (taken over by Army in 1942)
Tyneham, Dorset (taken over by Army in 1943)
West Tofts, Norfolk (taken over by Army in 1942)
Wharram Percy, North Yorkshire (Deserted Medieval Village)

[edit] United States

Main article: List of ghost towns in the United States

[edit] See also

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b Changes in the names and number of settlements in Bulgaria in 2008, Geography Journal, 1/2009 (in Bulgarian)
^ Visit Achill - Deserted Village at Slievemore, Achill, Co Mayo, Ireland
^ Overview of Bothwellhaugh

[edit] External links

Ghosttowns.com
Coloradopast.com - Colorado ghost town and historic pictures
GhostTownsCanada.ca Lots of pictures of Canadian ghost towns

[iit-0] Changes in the names and number of settlements in Bulgaria in 2008, Geography Journal, 1/2009 (in Bulgarian)

[1] Visit Achill - Deserted Village at Slievemore, Achill, Co Mayo, Ireland

[2] Overview of Bothwellhaugh

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