2024

FORMER JAPANESE MINE

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This mine was exploited until the Second World War by the Japanese and closed after Pearl Harbor. The Japanese were expelled and some interned. The remains are impressive. All that remains here are concrete columns that carried evacuation hoses to the beach, as well as rusted conveyor belts that end up on the shore. Up there, on the mountain, more than 1,500 people once worked to extract the iron.

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