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Chubut

Comodoro Rivadavia first oil-strike camp coast

Tidal foreshore Documented sitePermission required
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What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Also reported: enamelware.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Drillers seeking water struck oil here in 1907, spawning YPF's company camps along the gulf; camp tips and shore fill date the first oil decades.

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