Battleship Island
To Japan (2)
At the height of it's working life, Hashima - often called Gunkanjima due to it's ocean top resemblance to a battleship - was home to over five thousand people , and was the most densely populated place on earth, with one person every 1.5 metres it made the likes of Tokyo and Rio de Janeiro seem more like the sparse dunes of northern Africa.
This island, resting off the coast of Nagasaki, Japan, was just a reef when it was discovered to have large quantities of coal in 1870, and remained largely unaffected until the Mitsubishi company bought out the ...