Peace ship awaits calm
PA Wellington The environmental protest ship Greenpeace was waiting for a southerly gale to blow out yesterday to see if it had shifted the ice that is blocking the ship’s Antarctic passage. The first mate on the Greenpeace, Mr John Sprange, said that the ship was in open water and there was no ice visible from the ship. “We’re quite comfortable on the boat. We’re just having to sit it out really,” he said. Mr Sprange said the Greenpeace crew would have to make a decision within the next two or three days whether to continue or cut short, their expedition. The ship is about 43 nautical miles from Beaufort Island and about the same distance from its intended destination of Ross Island. Greenpeace hopes to set up a base camp on Ross Island for research and to publicise Greenpeace’s call for Antarctica to become a world park.
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Press, 21 January 1986, Page 9
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