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Keywords
Beaches
Coastal features
Day
Disasters
Houses
KWCI (GPI)
Marine pollution
MV Prestige
Oceans (campaign title)
Oil (fossil fuel)
Oil (Industry)
Oil spills
One person
Outdoors
Toxics (campaign title)
Effects of Prestige Oil Spill in Muxia
The promenade of Muxia covered in oil spilled by the sunken tanker Prestige.
Unique identifier:
GP014FP
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
28/11/2002
Locations:
Galicia
,
Muxia
,
Spain
,
Western Europe
Credit line:
© Greenpeace / Pedro Armestre
Size:
1974px × 1417px 463KB
Ranking:
★★★★ (E)
Containers
Shoot:
Prestige Sinking Oil Spill in Galicia
The Prestige oil spill off the coast of Galicia was caused by the sinking of an oil tanker in 2002. The spill polluted thousands of kilometers of coastline and more than one thousand beaches on the Spanish, French and Portuguese coast, as well as causing great harm to the local fishing industry. The spill is the largest environmental disaster of both Spain's history and Portugal's history. The Prestige was a Greek-operated, single-hulled oil tanker, officially registered in the Bahamas, but with a Liberian-registered single-purpose corporation as the owner.
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