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Rainbow Warrior music festival
A programme for the Rainbow Warrior music festival held at Auckland's Mt Smart Stadium on 5 April 1986.
Rainbow Warrior sunk in Auckland harbour
The Greenpeace ship, which was protesting against French nuclear testing, was torn apart by two bombs planted by French secret agents. A Portuguese crew member was killed.
Nuclear-free New Zealand
The sinking of the Greenpeace protest ship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland in July 1985 shocked the nation. The incident galvanised an anti-nuclear movement that had emerged in opposition to both French nuclear tests at Mururoa and American warship visits to New Zealand. 
Sinking the Rainbow Warrior - nuclear-free New Zealand
In 1985 New Zealand was basking in its position as leader of the anti-nuclear movement. Then, on 10 July two explosions, set by French Secret Service agents, ripped through the hull of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior, preventing it leaving for another protest campaign at Mururoa Atoll.
Sound clip: sinking of the Rainbow Warrior
Description of the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior
Rainbow Warrior after the bombing
The Rainbow Warrior in dock after the bombing
Rainbow Warrior memorial
The Rainbow Warrior memorial at Matauri Bay, Northland
Wreck of the Rainbow Warrior
On 12 December, 1987, two years after it was blown up in Auckland Harbour, the Rainbow Warrior was scuttled to become a dive site. The boat was sunk off Matauri Bay, quite close to the Cavalli Islands.
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