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    Montebello Islands 20°28′S 115°32′E / 20.46°S 115.54°E / -20.46; 115.54 The Montebello Islands, also rendered as the Monte Bello Islands, are an archipelago...
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  • Montebello may refer to: Montebello Islands, Australia Montebello della Battaglia, Pavia, Italy Montebello Vicentino, Vicenza, Italy Montebello di Bertona...
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    Operation Hurricane (category Montebello Islands archipelago)
    device was detonated on 3 October 1952 in Main Bay, Trimouille Island, in the Montebello Islands in Western Australia. With the success of Operation Hurricane...
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  • Group Wallabi Group Lacepede Islands Lowendal Islands Mary Anne Group Montebello Islands Recherché Archipelago Rottnest Island Rowley Shoals Scott and Seringapatam...
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    Operation Mosaic (category Montebello Islands archipelago)
    Montebello Islands Operation Mosaic was a series of two British nuclear tests conducted in the Montebello Islands in Western Australia on 16 May and 19...
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    explosions occurred at the Montebello Islands, Emu Field and Maralinga. The British conducted testing in the Pacific Ocean at Malden Island and Kiritimati known...
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  • Montebello Islands, Western Australia Operation TOTEM – October 1953, Emu Field, South Australia Operation MOSAIC – June 1956, Montebello Islands, Western...
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    Montebello (Italian for "Beautiful Mountain") is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, located just east of East Los Angeles and southwest...
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    120 km west of Dampier. The reserve includes the entire group of Montebello Islands. Close to the marine park is one of the most important oil and gas...
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    1952 to 26 November 1991 at the Montebello Islands, Emu Field and Maralinga in Australia, on Christmas and Malden Islands in Kiribati, and at the Nevada...
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    The Montebello Islands is an archipelago lying off the Pilbara coast of north-western Western Australia. There are about 180 islands in the group, most...
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  • montebelloensis, or the Montebello seahorse is a synonym of Hippocampus zebra, Whitley, 1964. It is known from Montebello Islands and Exmouth Gulf in Western...
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    Australia, 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) northwest of the outer edge of the Montebello Islands group. It is named for the Tryall, the first known shipwreck in Australian...
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    mainland, as well surrounding islands, including Tasmania, Barrow Island (Western Australia), and the Montebello Islands. They are more common on the southern...
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    ● Banksia Island Banksia Island is a small island in the Montebello Islands, off the north-west coast of Western Australia. It is located at 20°24′S 115°30′E...
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    Barrow Island in the 1960s. Thevenard Island also has evidence of Aboriginal visitation, and it is likely that the nearby Montebello Islands were utilized...
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    Operation Hurricane, the first British atomic weapons tests at the Montebello Islands in 1952. His position was abolished in 1954 with the creation of the...
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    Julia Percy Island  Lizard Island  Maria Island  Montebello Islands  Palm Island, Queensland  Great Palm Island  Phillip Island  Rottnest Island  Sir Graham...
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  • 1950s, three British nuclear weapons tests were carried out in the Montebello Islands, 130 km (81 mi) off the Pilbara coast. The Aboriginal population of...
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    Montebello is a municipality located in the Papineau Regional County Municipality of Western Quebec, Canada. At the 2001 census, there were 1,039 permanent...
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    1952. In October, she was part of the security patrol around the Montebello Islands during Operation Hurricane, the first British nuclear weapons test...
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    Abandoned fishing villages preserved on Gouqi Island, Zhoushan Islands in China. Montebello Islands, Australia, site of nuclear tests. Times Beach,...
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  • sortable list of islands of Western Australia includes all coastal and inland islands, cays, isles and islets. It also includes named island groups, archipelagos...
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    including three at the Montebello Islands and nine in mainland South Australia at Maralinga and Emu Field, 9 at Christmas Island (Kiritimati) in the Pacific...
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    actions during the war. On 3 October 1952, Murchison was present of the Montebello Islands for the Operation Hurricane nuclear weapons test. Murchison paid off...
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  • power. Montebello Islands, Western Australia, Australia 20°24′11″S 115°34′08″E / 20.40293°S 115.5689°E / -20.40293; 115.5689 (Montebello Islands) An...
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    weeks later were shipwrecked on an uncharted reef northwest of the Montebello Islands (about 20° latitude south, now known as Tryal Rocks). The shipwreck...
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    test of the first British atomic bomb, which had taken place at the Montebello Islands a year previously. The main purpose of the trial was to determine...
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  • edge of the Montebello Islands group, the southern boundary of which is about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) north of the northern tip of Barrow Island. The reef...
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    Kingdom tested its first nuclear weapon in Operation Hurricane in the Montebello Islands off the coast of Western Australia. A year later the first nuclear...
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