Rusting drums on the shore at Bellingshausen station, Antarctica

1992

Rusting drums on the shore at Bellingshausen station, Antarctica

An old truck and rusting drums littering the shoreline at the Russian Bellingshausen station. Cousteau's Antarctic campaign of 1990-1991 helped produce the Madrid Protocol, which banned mineral exploitation for fifty years.

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