Video: Nightingale Island Oil Spill

Published March 24, 2011

Yesterday I visited Nightingale Island, in the remote Tristan da Cunha island group in the far South Atlantic. The island was on my scheduled itinerary, however, the oil spill that preceded my visit was not. This brief video shows some of what I saw and you see my photo gallery here.

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