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Cleaning a penguin

A penguin having fuel oil cleaned off it after the Rena wreck.

Birds such as this penguin were meticulously cleaned from fuel oil that came from the Rena wreck.

Rights: Maritime New Zealand

Published: 11 January 2012Size: 96.01 KB

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