Maralinga is a desert area around 3,300 square kilometres (1,300 sq mi) large located in the west of South Australia, within the Great Victoria Desert...
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1956 and 1963, the United Kingdom conducted seven nuclear tests at the Maralinga site in South Australia, part of the Woomera Prohibited Area about 800...
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The Maralinga Tjarutja, or Maralinga Tjarutja Council, is the corporation representing the traditional Anangu owners of the remote western areas of South...
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Nuclear weapons tests in Australia (section Maralinga)
1957. These explosions occurred at the Montebello Islands, Emu Field and Maralinga. The British conducted testing in the Pacific Ocean at Malden Island and...
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Maralinga: Australia's Nuclear Waste Cover-up is a book by Alan Parkinson about the clean-up of the British atomic bomb test site at Maralinga in South...
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Alan Parkinson (engineer) (section Maralinga clean-up)
book, Maralinga: Australia’s Nuclear Waste Cover-up which exposed deficiencies in the clean-up of the British atomic bomb test site at Maralinga in South...
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Maralinga to Emu Road is a remote unsealed outback track that links Maralinga to Emu in the western region of South Australia. It was built by Len Beadell...
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The Antakarinya people were greatly affected by the atomic testing at Maralinga in the 1950s and the language was similarly affected in an attempt to...
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Yami Lester (section Maralinga nuclear testing)
accepted that this black mist was fallout from British nuclear tests at Maralinga and Emu Junction which were taking place at that time. His most significant...
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of 1956 at the Marcoo (surface) and Kite (air-drop) nuclear trials at Maralinga, Australia, by a team of Australian, British and Canadian scientists....
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nuclear tests in Australia, namely the South Australian Maralinga and Emu Field tests. The Maralinga sites were chosen due to their "vast, empty useless spaces"...
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20-year campaign in the Maralinga Tjarutja people regaining ownership of their land, following the British nuclear tests at Maralinga, South Australia, and...
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Operation Antler (nuclear tests), a series of nuclear tests conducted at Maralinga, Australia, between 14 September and 9 October 1957. Operation Antler...
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region, as defined by the Local Government Association of South Australia. Maralinga Tjarutja and Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara aboriginal councils...
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project used to monitor radiation levels after British nuclear tests at Maralinga is a likely explanation. Basterfield located documents in the National...
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ranging up to 25 kilotons were tested at Emu Junction (2 tests, 1953) and Maralinga (7 tests, 1956–1957). Given that only one officer and an assistant were...
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tested twice during the Operation Buffalo series of nuclear trials at Maralinga in Australia – first (codenamed Buffalo R1/One Tree) on 27 September 1956:...
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Oak Valley is the only community of Maralinga Tjarutja Aboriginal Council (AC) Local Government Area (LGA), South Australia. The population fluctuates...
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In 1987 Bamara, who lived near Maralinga, produced a painting for a poster protesting nuclear testing at Maralinga, for the Australian Council for Disarmament...
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Islands, Western Australia Operation BUFFALO – September – October 1956, Maralinga, South Australia Operation GRAPPLE – May 1957 – September 1958, Malden...
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612 Mount Davies Road – Pipalyatjara Emu Field 1,035 643 Maralinga to Emu Road – Maralinga Coober Pedy Coober Pedy 1,325 823 Stuart Highway (A87) – Alice...
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forced to leave their traditional lands due to British nuclear tests at Maralinga. Some aṉangu were subsequently contaminated by the nuclear fallout from...
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primary school and Maralinga Primary school merged) name was made from combining Chandler and Maralinga Park. Keysborough Park and Maralinga primary schools...
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Beneath the Southern Cross, Territory, Pacific, Heritage, Floodtide, Maralinga, Tiger Men in 2011, Elianne in 2013 and Spirits of the Ghan in 2015. Film...
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embarks on a quest to find out the truth about British nuclear tests at Maralinga. It stars actors Colin Friels, Jack Thompson and Indigenous activist Burnum...
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out over the following decade, including seven British nuclear tests at Maralinga in 1956 and 1957. The British hydrogen bomb programme demonstrated Britain's...
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Operation Antler/Round 1 test by the British at the Tadje site in the Maralinga range in Australia on September 14, 1957, tested a bomb using cobalt pellets...
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Park The nuclear weapons trials carried out by the United Kingdom at Maralinga and Emu Field in the 1950s and early 1960s have left areas contaminated...
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Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY lands in South Australia) Maralinga, the home of Maralinga Tjarutja, and the site of the British nuclear tests in the...
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as an experimental radiochemical tracer at their Tadje testing site in Maralinga range, Australia, on September 14, 1957. The Russian triple "taiga" nuclear...
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