Activists board Shell Oil rig: Greenpeace

Greenpeace says a group of its activists have boarded a Shell Oil rig in the Pacific Ocean to protest the company's offshore drilling plans in the Arctic.

A Greenpeace activist scales the Polar Pioneer drill rig in the Pacific Ocean.

A Greenpeace activist scales the Polar Pioneer drill rig in the Pacific Ocean.

Greenpeace says its activists have boarded a Shell Oil rig in the Pacific Ocean to protest the company's offshore drilling plans in the Arctic.

21-year-old Brisbane student Zoe Buckley Lennox is the youngest activist to board the Polar Pioneer drilling rig.

She's told Lydia Feng, the others hail from the United States, Germany, New Zealand, Sweden and Austria.

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