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The following is a partial list of ghost towns.

Contents 1 Australia 2 Cambodia 3 Canada 4 Chile 5 China 6 Cyprus 7 Faroe Islands 8 Finland 9 France 10 Guyana 11 Hungary 12 India 13 Iraq 14 Iran 15 Ireland 16 Italy 17 Ivory Coast 18 Japan 19 México 20 Montserrat 21 Namibia 22 The Netherlands 23 Norway 24 Pakistan 25 Poland 26 Russia 27 Saudi Arabia 28 Antarctica and sub-Antarctic islands 28.1 South Georgia 29 Spain 30 Turkey 31 Turkmenistan 32 Ukraine 33 United Kingdom 34 United States 35 See also 36 References 37 External links

[edit] Australia

• Big Bell, Western Australia
• Boydtown, New South Wales; Originally settled and then abandoned in the 1840s. 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; Never fully abandoned, now a popular tourist town.
• Iron Baron, South Australia; Former mining town
• Jay Creek, Northern Territory
• Joadja near Mittagong
• Kanowna, near Kalgoorlie (Western Australia)
• Kiandra, New South Wales
• Linda, Tasmania
• Malcolm, east of Leonora (Western Australia)
• Mary Kathleen, Queensland. Former mining town, 55 km from Mount Isa and 62 km from Cloncurry(Queensland).
• Maytown, Queensland, in the Palmer River goldfields (Queensland)
• Moliagul, Victoria, 202 km north west from Melbourne
• 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 1000 residents.
• Ophir, New South Wales
• Ora Banda, Western Australia
• Pillinger, Tasmania
• Ravenswood, Queensland
• Silverton, near Broken Hill, New South Wales
• Tarcoon, New South Wales
• Walhalla, in the Baw Baw mountains (Victoria). 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]

[edit] Canada

[edit] Chile

• Chaitén
• Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works
• Puerto Hambre (also called Port Famine)
• Sewell, Chile

[edit] China

• Niya

[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:

• Beaumont-en-Verdunois
• Bezonvaux
• Cumières-le-Mort-Homme
• Fleury-devant-Douaumont
• Haumont-près-Samogneux
• Louvemont-Côte-du-Poivre

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] 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

• Daulatabad
• Dholavira
• Fatehpur Sikri
• Gaur
• Hampi
• Lakhpat
• Lothal
• Mandu
• Old Goa
• Pandua
• Pavagadh
• Ross island (Andaman)
• Somnathpur

[edit] Iraq

• Babylon

[edit] Iran

• Soltaniyeh
• Choqa Zanbil

[edit] Ireland

• Slievemore(Sliabh Mór) ^[1]

[edit] Italy

• Avi, Piemonte
• Bussana Vecchia, Liguria
• Melito Vecchio (Old Melito), Avellino, Campania
• Connio Vecchio (Old Connio), Piemonte
• Consonno (Olginate, Lecco)
• Craco (Matera)
• 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, Michoacan Abandoned due to Paricutin volcano

[edit] Montserrat

• Plymouth
• St. Patrick's

[edit] Namibia

• Kolmanskop and Elizabeth Bay old Diamond mining town

[edit] The Netherlands

• Schokland

[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

• Atil
• Ksnyatin
• Mangazeya
• Mologa
• Sarai Berke - said to be 10 times larger than London in the 14th century
• Sarkel
• Sviyazhsk
• Tmutarakan

[edit] Saudi Arabia

• Albaten
• Najd
• Shaqra
• Tharmida

[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
• Leith Harbour
• Ocean Harbour
• Husvik
• Stromness
• Prince Olav Harbour

[edit] Spain

• Belchite, Zaragoza, Aragón
• Ochate, Condado de Treviño, Burgos, Castilla y León
• La Cornudilla, Valencia
• Fiscal, Towns of Lacort, Jánovas and more in the region called "Solana de Fiscal" - Huesca (Aragón)
• Pernui in Sort, Lleida, Cataluña

[edit] Turkey

• Troy

[edit] Turkmenistan

• Merv
• Old Urgench

[edit] Ukraine

• Chernobyl
• Pripyat

[edit] United Kingdom

• Ashopton, Derbyshire (under reservoir)
• Derwent, Derbyshire (under reservoir)
• Bothwellhaugh, North Lanarkshire (Under Strathclyde Loch)
• 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

[edit] See also

• Ghost town
• Category:Ghost towns
• List of places with fewer than ten residents
• List of unused highways

[edit] References

[edit] External links

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