20120620_Chile_3195 crop Santiago Humberstone : 無料・フリー素材/写真
20120620_Chile_3195 crop Santiago Humberstone / Dan Lundberg
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-継承 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Theater (built 1936) in the nitrate processing town of Santiago Humberstone.Santiago Humberstone was one of many company towns in the Atacama Desert involved in extracting saltpeter from the largest saltpeter deposit in the world and producing the fertilizer sodium nitrate which generated great wealth for Chile. British-born James Thomas Humberstone (who became known as ‘Don Santiago’ locally) originally called the works La Palma when he established them in 1872. The German discovery in 1909 of a process to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen in the air led to industrial production of potassium nitrate fertilizer [not to mention nitrate for use in explosives during World War I]. That competition combined with the Great Depression beginning in 1929 collapsed the economic model for Chilean saltpeter. Modernization efforts made Santiago Humberstone the most successful natural saltpeter works in 1940, but the business could not be sustained. It was abandoned in 1960, putting 3,000 people out of work.Santiago Humberstone and neighboring Santa Laura were declared national monuments in 1970 and jointly a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2005.On Google Earth:Santiago Humberstone 20°12'31.03"S, 69°47'43.60"WSanta Laura 20°12'42.75"S, 69°48'45.09"W |
| 撮影日 | 2012-06-20 11:39:50 |
| 撮影者 | Dan Lundberg |
| 撮影地 | Humberstone, Tarapaca, Chile 地図 |
| カメラ | Canon PowerShot G11 , Canon |
| 露出 | 0.002 sec (1/640) |
| 開放F値 | f/4.0 |
| 焦点距離 | 5479.452055 dpi |