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The Kirki was a 210-metre-long Greek-registered oil tanker which caught fire in the early morning of 21 July 1991, 30 km west of the fishing town of Cervantes, Western Australia, causing what at the time was the worst oil spill to have occurred in Australian waters.
MV Kirki Greece: The tanker broke in two in the Indian Ocean 22 nautical miles (41 km) off Cervantes, Western Australia during a storm. The bow section sank. The stern section caught fire five times but each time the rough seas put the fire out. Kirki was towed to Dampier, Western Australia, where
Kirki (tanker), an oil tanker causing the oil spill outside of Australia on 21 July 1991; Kirki, Republic of Dagestan, a rural locality in Dagestan, Russia; the Andean instrument Charango; the Indian city founded in 1610 that was renamed Aurangabad in 1653
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Early this week, discount airline Spirit Airlines roused controversy with a web promotion that made light of the Gulf Coast oil spill. Within a day, the ad was pulled from Spirit's site and the ...
This is a reverse-chronological list of oil spills that have occurred throughout the world and spill(s) that are currently ongoing. Quantities are measured in tonnes of crude oil with one tonne roughly equal to 308 US gallons , 256 Imperial gallons , 7.33 barrels , or 1165 litres .
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