MV Gondwana

The MV Gondwana
History
Name:	Viking
Completed:	1975
Name:	MV Gondwana
Operator:	Greenpeace
Acquired:	1988
General characteristics
Tonnage:	1435 Gt
Length:	61.20 m

The MV Gondwana was a ship acquired by Greenpeace in 1988, originally built in 1975 and called the Viking. Greenpeace updated the ship with a helipad and accommodation space was increased to sleep 33 people. The ship was used to supply the Greenpeace World Park Base in 1988/89 and was involved in direct action to protest against Japanese whaling in the Southern Ocean in the late 1980s.^[1]

References

1. May, John (1989). The Greenpeace Book of Antarctica. Doubleday. p. 170. ISBN 0-385-26280-9.

External links

• The MV Viking in dry-dock being converted to the MV Gondwana
• The MV Gondwana in Antarctica