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SOUTHERN OCEAN: Greenpeace activists (C-small boat in background) are sprayed with hoses as they attempted to stop the transfer of a minke whale (in water-R) from a Japanese catcher ship (R) to the factory ship Nisshin Maru (L) in the Southern Ocean near Antarctica 25 December, 1999. The Greenpeace campaign is aimed at focusing global attention on the Japanese vessels it says are illegally hunting minke whales inside the internationally recognized whale sanctuary that surrounds Antarctica. (KEYSTONE/EPA/GREENPEACE/Cunningham)