Nightingale Island oil spill (1:54)
From The Encyclopedia of Earth
Historic Oil Spills (main)
March 23, 2011, 12:00 am
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Nightingale Island, part of the remote Tristan da Cunha group in the South Atlantic, was hit on March 16th, 2011 by the MV Oliva, a freighter carrying soybeans from Brazil to Singapore. Over 800 tons of fuel oil was spilled onto the island's shores, poisoning the local population of endangered northern rockhopper penguins.
