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The Greenpeace flagship, Rainbow Warrior 3, will arrive in Auckland tomorrow on the next stage of her “Making Oil History” tour of New Zealand.

The ship is a custom designed eco-campaign vessel designed to replace the original Rainbow Warrior bombed by French secret agents trying to stop her antinuclear voyage to Moruroa – this is now a living reef under water in Matauri Bay.

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The Rainbow Warrior is now “part of our national identity, as a symbol of New Zealand’s successful nuclear free movement”, says Greenpeace New Zealand executive director Russel Norman.

He says New Zealand must rediscover bold action now for the struggle against oil and catastrophic climate change.

The Pacific Media Centre was on hand for the Rainbow Warrior welcome in Matauri Bay, Northland, yesterday.

Photographs: David Robie

Rainbow Warrior at Matauri Bay
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1. Kiripaka-Tepapa marae near Matauri Bay - overnight stay. Image: David Robie/PMC
2. Matauri Bay, Northland, last resting place of the original Rainbow Warrior. Image: David Robie/PMC
3. The Rainbow Warrior memorial at Matauri Bay. Image: David Robie/PMC
4. The Rainbow Warrior 3 anchored above the spot where RW1 was scuttled in Matauri Bay. Image: David Robie/PMC
5. Documentary director Phil Vine and colleagues set up on the beach at dawn in Matauri Bay. Image" David Robie/PMC
6. David and Tane on the beach for the dawn at Matauri Bay RW doco shots. Image: Sophie Schroder/Greenpeace
7. Heading out in an inflatable to the Rainbow Warrior. Image: David Robie/PMC
8. Rainbow Warrior 3 up close. Image: David Robie/PMC
9. Rainbow Warrior 3 from the bow. Image: David Robie/PMC
10. Cameras on board an inflatable. Image: David Robie/PMC
11. Greenpeace's Logie as the inflatable reaches the RW. Image: David Robie/PMC
12. About to board the RW from an inflatable. Image: David Robie/PMC
13. Cameras on Greenpeace NZ executive director Russel Norman as he speaks in remembrance of Fernando Pereira. Image: David Robie/PMC
14. The wreath for Fernando Pereira. Image: David Robie/PMC
15. Casting the wreath for Fernando Pereira into the sea at Matauri Bay. Image: David Robie/PMC
16. A waiata for Fernando Pereira. Image: David Robie/PMC
17. Painting in the Rainbow Warrior 3 galley. Image: David Robie/PMC
18. Memorial photos for three Greenpeace environmental campaign martyrs, including Fernando Pereira. Image: Image: David Robie/PMC
19. Remembrance display at the foot of the memorial hill, Matauri Bay. Image: David Robie/PMC
20. Farewell Rainbow Warrior 3. Image: David Robie/PMC
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