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Keywords
Antarctica World Park (campaign title)
Coastlines
Day
Disasters
KWCI (GPI)
Marine pollution
Oil spills
Outdoors
Seascapes
Shipwrecks
Toxics (campaign title)
Bahia Paraiso
On January 28, 1989 the Argentine Polar Transporter Bahia Paraiso ran aground near Janus and DeLaca islands less than two miles from Palmer Station. Diesel fuel and other petroleum products (Estimated at 600,000 liters spilled) began leaking from the hull.
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Antarctica Expedition 1989/90
Antarctica expedition 89/90. Palmer Base (US).
In 1987 Greenpeace established the ‘World Park Base’ in Antarctica which stayed until 1991. The base was part of a 7 year campaign which concluded successfully with the Environmental protocol to the Antarctic treaty, an essential first step to protect the last (almost) untouched continent on this planet.
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Unique identifier:
GP014OH
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
01/01/1990
Locations:
Antarctic
,
Antarctica
,
Anvers Island
,
Arthur Harbor
Credit line:
© Greenpeace / Robin Culley
Size:
5630px × 3758px 4.97 MB
Ranking:
★★★★ (E)