History Main / DerelictGraveyard

* ''FinalFantasyXII'' has the Ozmone Plain, which may ''appear'' to be a nice, pleasant grassland, but all around, you find the wrecks of crashed airships...

* The Nartec city in {{Animorphs}} #36 is built from wrecks recovered from the seabed, although a lot of fans choose to [[DisContinuity ignore the Nartec even existing]].

** This is actually true of Ironbottom Sound. A compass will deflect off true north at least twice on any trip across the sound, sometimes as many as five times.

** Bikini Atoll was the site of [[https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Operation_Crossroads several atomic bomb tests]] involving a "fleet" of derelict ships many of which now lie in shallow waters on the bottom.

** Forget ordinance, just empty a clip into one of the cars until it starts burning, and then run like your life depends on it. And at this point, it does.

* The 'main' quest of ''Age of Pirates 2: City of Abandoned Ships'' involves travelling to the eponymous conglomeration of derelict ships fastened together, forming a floating town. [[spoiler:Well not really.]]

* Mario Bros RPG had the sunken ship, Super Mario World 3 had the sunken ship... there were many Mario games with sunken ships...

* The inhabitants of Krull in ''Discworld/TheLightFantastic'' build their homes out of dismantled ship components, from vessels that get caught in the Circumfence.

* The {{Shadowrun}} novel ''Black Madonna'', set in Azania (post-Awakening South Africa), had a scene where the LoveInterest watches some poor locals disassembling derelict ships for scrap metal. TruthInTelevision, as many developing nations arrange for such work to keep their poorest citizens employed and out of mischief.

*** A number of wrecks found in that region were sunk deliberately, by drug smugglers who steal a vessel, use it for a few weeks, and then get rid of the evidence when the Coast Guard starts getting suspicious.

** The Great Lakes are also littered with sunken vessels. Many are in near-pristine condition, as their materials don't degrade as rapidly as ships sunk in salt water.

* The inhabitants of Krull in ''Discworld/TheLightFantastic'' build their homes out of dismantled ship parts, from vessels that get caught in the Circumfence.

* The Ord Mantell Junkyard from ''StarWars: ShadowsOfTheEmpire''. You jump from rail platform to rail platform, through what looks like a warehouse, a junkyard filled with derelict structures, thousands of ships smashed together, some sort of brown toxic stuff in the ground that kills you as soon as you fall from the wagons, and end up in a smelter. If you pay attention, you'll see an X-Wing, a TIE Fighter, [[strike: the]] a Sandcrawler, an AT-AT, an AT-ST, and the Millenium Falcon.

*** Unless your pilot is [[HandicappedBadass Joker]].

* The far side of the [[spoiler: Omega-4 Relay]] in ''MassEffect2'' is littered with broken and derelict ships [[spoiler: lacking the IFF transponder that tells the relay to send a ship through safely instead of shooting it.]]

* The far side of the [[spoiler: Omega-4 Relay]] in ''MassEffect2'' is littered with broken and derelict ships [[spoiler: lacking the IFF transponder that tells the relay to send a ship through safely instead of letting it suffer the black hole near the exit point.]]
** That bit doesn't make any sense if you think about it. Black holes swallow matter, never to be seen again. If the ships hit a black hole there would be nothing left.
** Tidal forces would rip ships apart if they were too close, never mind the risk of crashing into something in the accretion disk.
** It's not just the black holes, there also happens to be a race with advanced technology that kills on sight. So the ones lucky enough to not get sucked into the black holes most likely got wrecked by lasers.

* Arguably the first three worlds of ''DonkeyKongCountry 2''. First there's a ship that's in mint condition except for a hole torn into the hull, then there's a ship that's been torn in half and is sitting in the middle of a swamp. And then there's the half-ship submerged in ''lava''...

* Large concentrations of sunken ships can occur in RealLife. Naval battles are one reason (such as "Ironbottom Sound" off Guadalcanal, rumored to be lined with the hulks of so many sunken ships a magnetic compass is useless), mass scuttlings another, such as when the German High Seas Fleet was [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutter_Sound scuttled at Scapa Flow]] at the end of WorldWarOne.

** Or the Mothball Fleet in Alameda.