15 legendary pictures to celebrate: The Arctic Sunrise is coming home!

Posted by Angela Glienicke — 6 June 2014 at 1:10pm - Comments
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MY Arctic Sunrise is making her way through ice in the fjord of Scoresbysund as part of her tour of Greenland in 2005

I'm so happy to hear that the Arctic Sunrise is finally released by Russian authorities after months in custody! That's great news, but she should never have been detained in the first place as she was in international waters during a peaceful protest against Arctic oil drilling when she was seized. <--break->Some of my favourite photos of the ship show her in remote locations in harsh conditions.

The Arctic Sunrise is instrumental in our campaigning and has been to many different places supporting various campaigns over the years.

Have a look at some of her key moments and support us in getting her back into shape.

 

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1996: The Arctic Sunrise during an action against plans to build hotels on turtle nesting site, Cyprus. © Greenpeace / Erini Rodis

 

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1999: The Arctic Sunrise and factory ship Nisshin Maru during the whaling tour in the Southern Ocean. © Greenpeace / John Cunningham

 

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2001: The Arctic Sunrise during the campaign against Star Wars. Artist Bernard McLeod makes a drawing using charcoal dust on an ice floe. © Greenpeace / Nick Cobbing

 

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2001, The Arctic Sunrise on the way to Belem, here on the river Furo do Tapajus in Brazil. © Greenpeace / Daniel Beltra

 

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2004 A Greenpeace activist is chained to the anchor chain of the bulk carrier 'Global Wind' during a protest against GE. © Greenpeace / Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert

 

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2005: The Arctic Sunrise passes Manhattan Island in transit through New York Harbor bound for Miami. © Bryan Smith / Greenpeace 

 

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2007: The Scottish trawler 'Carisanne II' and Greenpeace vessel 'The Arctic Sunrise' during a  direct action to halt North Sea trawlers fishing cod towards extinction. © Greenpeace / Christian Aslund

 

IB Image2009: Finding its way through the ice by floodlight, the Arctic Sunrise heads to a prearranged position where oceanographers will cast a CTD (Conductivity Temperature Depth) profiling device. © Nick Cobbing / Greenpeace

 

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2009: The Arctic Sunrise off Greenland. © Markus Mauthe / Greenpeace

 

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2011: The Arctic Sunrise is visiting New York as part of the "Coal Free Future" tour that travelled up the east coast. © Michael  Nagle / Greenpeace

 

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2012: The Greenpeace ship MY Arctic Sunrise on an expedition to the Arctic to document the lowest sea ice level on record. © Daniel Beltra / Greenpeace

 

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2013: The Arctic Sunrise during an European journey in support of sustainable fishing. © Greenpeace / Alan Greig

 

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2013: The Arctic Sunrise arrives in Fowey, United Kingdom. Greenpeace is on a European journey in support of sustainable fishing. © Markel Redondo / Greenpeace

 

IB Image2013: The Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise under arrest and docked in the port of Murmansk. © Dmitri Sharomov / Greenpeace

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