A whale graveyard on an inhospitable island has been vandalised. Deception Island on the Antarctic Peninsula is arguably the only true tourist destination on the Frozen Continent, attracting more than 15,000 visitors last year. The former whaling station was abandoned by the British in 1969 after a huge volcanic eruption covered hundreds of whale carcasses in 2m of ash. To this day, the remains of humpbacks lie beneath the surface of the beach, a few bones poking up through the sand where