Effects of Prestige Oil Spill in Galicia

Birds stained with oil after having been rescued from the area affected by the sinking of the Prestige.

Unique identifier: GP013FN

Type: Image

Shoot date: 28/11/2002

Locations: Muxia, Spain, Western Europe

Credit line: © Greenpeace / Pedro Armestre

Size: 3655px × 2390px 1MB

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

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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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