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  • Underwater nuclear warhead burst of ASROC missile fired from USS  AGERHOLME.

    The Nuclear Campaign was Greenpeace’s first campaign in New Zealand. It initially grew out of the anti-nuclear and anti-war movements of the late 1960s, especially in Canada where there were…

  • Crewmember MV Greenpeace waving to Vega during Pacific Peace Tour. 

Greenpeace sailing boat 'Vega' and ship "MV Greenpeace" during campaign against nuclear testing in the Pacific.
Previous to French nuclear test site protest in the Pacific, the MV Greenpeace and flotilla return to New Zealand to replace Rainbow Warrior I that was bombed in Auckland. The refit of the ship prior to departure was done at Oranjewerf, which is in Nieuwendam, to the NE of Amsterdam. The Inmarsat dome was installed in the Antilles and some engine maintenance, following the Atlantic crossing.

    A history of Greenpeace Aotearoa / New Zealand from 1990 to 2020. As Greenpeace commemorates five decades since its first boat set sail, we all face a gathering storm of…

  • Greenpeace Climate Campaigner Amanda Larsson and Greenpeace activist Sophie Schröder hold banner reading "MAKE OMV HISTORY" in front of OMV-owned oil processing ship.

    Greenpeace’s Climate Campaign started in New Zealand in 1990 at a time when there was growing public awareness of the damage being done to the climate by fossil fuels, and…

  • Rainbow Warrior in the Tasman Sea. Full blue sails.  (Greenpeace Witness book page 26)

    Greenpeace’s Pacific Campaign was set up in November 1986 with two co-ordinators: New Zealander Bunny McDiarmid, who was based in the Greenpeace New Zealand office in Auckland, and American Sebia…