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Bay of Plenty beach clean-up

Volunteers cleaning Bay of Plenty beaches after Rena oil spill.

A volunteer with some of the bags of black oily goo collected in the clean-up of beaches in the Bay of Plenty after the Rena oil spill.

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Rights: Maritime New Zealand
Published: 16 November 2011Updated: 10 March 2026Size: 1.07 MB
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