Greenpeace Activists in Vancouver

Greenpeace president Bob Hunter and Russian translator George Korotva in an inflatable boat in Vancouver Harbour, February, 1975. Greenpeace had recently announced it's plan to save the whales by placing people in inflatable boats between the whalers and the whales.

Unique identifier: GP03OAW

Type: Image

Shoot date: 01/02/1975

Locations: British Columbia, Canada, North America, Vancouver (Canada)

Credit line: © Greenpeace / Rex Weyler

Size: 4535px × 3035px 5MB

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

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Soviet Whaling Tour in North Pacific 1975

Greenpeace first anti whaling campaign was carried out during the summer of 1975 in the North Pacific Ocean using the sailing vessel Phyllis Cormack to oppose the activities of a Russian whaling fleet. The shoot includes images from the very first encounter with the Soviet whalers, the first time Greenpeace confronted whalers, on June 26, 1975. A year after the group embarked again with both the Phyllis Cormack and the James Bay to defend the whales.

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