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Chile, Tarapacá

Iquique

Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsPermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles
Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals
Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: nitrate-boom late 19th-century beer, gin.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Liz West (CC BY 2.0), Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1885 historic-map era

Nitrate export port; enormous late-19th-century bottle consumption.

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