Greenpeace’s Arctic Sunrise in West India Dock

An interesting visitor in West India Docks is the MV Arctic Sunrise an Icebreaker ship operated by Greenpeace. It was built-in Norway in 1975 and was named Polarbjorn (Polar Bear). In the early 2000s, it was involved in anti- whaling campaigns, one of the most famous when it collided with a Japanese Whaling ship in 2006. Its most dramatic Continue reading