"An Antarctic Mystery", chapter 24, by Jules Verne, translated by Cashel Hoey.

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Chapter 24: Eleven Years in a Few Pages

The picture used is "Pendulum Cove (Deception Island, Antarctica)" by Delphinidaesy, licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.0) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/). Which is meant to stand-in for post-earthquake Tsalal Island.

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