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Professor Robie's account of these events is Eyes of Fire - The Last Voyage of the Rainbow Warrior, and that is being re-issued to mark the 30th anniversary of the sinking.ĭon Wiseman spoke with David Robie and began by asking him about Rongelap.ĭAVID ROBIE: Idyllic, beautiful, typical atoll in the Pacific with absolute tranquility and beauty. One of those on the Rainbow Warrior at Rongelap - one of five journalists - was New Zealander, David Robie, who these days is Professor Robie and head of the journalism school at AUT. So plans were made to move them again and Greenpeace offered to help. The Rongelapese had been moved off the island for three years but taken back in 1957.īut they continued to suffer an inordinate number of cancer conditions and other health problems attributed to the bomb test fallout. Rongelap had been caught in downwind fallout from the United States Bravo Hydrogen Bomb test at Bikini Atoll 35 years earlier. It was its first and last Pacific voyage and a remarkable one, relocating the people of Rongelap Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
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Loading the Rainbow Warrior ahead of its final Pacific journey in 1985 Photo: David Robie / Eyes of Fire