Moruroa (Mururoa, Mururura), also historically known as Aopuni, is an atoll which forms part of the Tuamotu Archipelago in French Polynesia in the southern...

of protest sent two navy frigates, HMNZS Canterbury and HMNZS Otago, to Moruroa. They were accompanied by HMAS Supply, a fleet oiler of the Royal Australian...

later, when France conducted nuclear weapons testing on the atolls of Moruroa and Fangataufa. French Polynesia is a semi-autonomous island group designated...

Country France Test site Lagoon Area 2, Fangataufa Atoll; Lagoon, Areas 5–7, Moruroa Atoll Period 1995–1996 Number of tests 6 Test type underground shaft Max...

tested at Reggane, French Algeria, 13 at In Ekker, Algeria and the rest at Moruroa and Fangataufa Atolls in French Polynesia. Often skipped in lists are the...

Information Country France Test site Colette zone, Moruroa Atoll; Denise zone, Moruroa Atoll; Dindon zone, Moruroa Atoll; Fregate Zone, Fangataufa Atoll; Muroroa...

Information Country France Test site Lagoon, Areas 5–7, Moruroa Atoll; Rim zone, Areas 1–2, Moruroa Atoll Period 1983–1985 Number of tests 25 Test type underground...

Auckland on her way to a protest against a planned French nuclear test in Moruroa. Fernando Pereira, a photographer, drowned on the sinking ship. The sinking...

Government conducted 193 nuclear bomb tests above and below the atolls of Moruroa and Fangataufa. The last test was conducted on 27 January 1996. In 1946...

benefited from the final nuclear test campaign carried out in 1995-1996 at Moruroa, French Polynesia and its design was ultimately validated by the French...

Information Country France Test site Rim zone, Areas 1–2, Moruroa Atoll; Zoe and Yvonne Il., Areas 3–4, Moruroa Atoll Period 1979–1980 Number of tests 22 Test type...

Dindon zone, Moruroa Atoll; Muroroa Atoll, Pacific Test Area (CEP); Rim zone, Areas 1–2, Moruroa Atoll; Zoe and Yvonne Il., Areas 3–4, Moruroa Atoll Period...

May 1964 to observe France's development of an atomic bomb test range at Moruroa in French Polynesia. In early 1964, SAC sent a detachment of U-2s from...

in international waters near the French military operational areas at Moruroa Atoll. On the twentieth anniversary of the sinking, it was revealed that...

test range from Algeria, which had become independent, to the atolls of Moruroa and Fangataufa, some 1,500 km (930 mi) to the east of Tahiti. This was...

moved its focus to the French atmospheric nuclear weapons testing at the Moruroa Atoll in French Polynesia. The young organization needed help for their...

Information Country France Test site Colette zone, Moruroa Atoll; Denise zone, Moruroa Atoll; Dindon zone, Moruroa Atoll; Muroroa Atoll, Pacific Test Area (CEP)...

Lagoon Area 2, Fangataufa Atoll; Lagoon, Areas 5–7, Moruroa Atoll; Rim zone, Areas 1–2, Moruroa Atoll Period 1986–1988 Number of tests 24 Test type underground...

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Test site Lagoon, Areas 5–7, Moruroa Atoll; Rim zone, Areas 1–2, Moruroa Atoll; Zoe and Yvonne Il., Areas 3–4, Moruroa Atoll Period 1981–1982 Number...

in Algeria was no longer usable when Algeria became independent and the Moruroa atoll in the Tuamotu Archipelago was selected as the new testing site;...

Lagoon Area 2, Fangataufa Atoll; Lagoon, Areas 5–7, Moruroa Atoll; Rim zone, Areas 1–2, Moruroa Atoll Period 1989–1991 Number of tests 21 Test type Underground...

to have undergone the syndrome include the French Polynesian island of Moruroa, Rainier Mesa in the United States, the Dnepr 1 nuclear test site on the...

kilometres (3.1 miles). It is located 37 kilometres (23 miles) south of Moruroa atoll, 197 kilometres (122 miles) east of Tematangi, 240 kilometres (150...

d'Essais des Landes) at the end of 1968 and nuclear warheads were tested at Moruroa in the Pacific Ocean. Designated Sous-marin Nucléaire Lanceur d'Engins...

adopted a tone of appeasement towards France in its Pacific nuclear tests at Moruroa, which he visited at the invitation of Gaston Flosse. When he was questioned...

Archives sur le Centre d'Expérimentations Nucléaires du Pacifique (C.E.P.) à Moruroa, Hao et Fangataufa National Assembly of the French Republic (5 February...

survive mostly by fishing. Low islands usually have an oceanic climate. The Moruroa atoll, composed of low islands on the reef encircling a central lagoon...

Spanish police and deported. In 1985, the French nuclear weapons tests at Moruroa in the Pacific Ocean was being contested by environmental protesters led...

Vahitahi Nukutavake Vairaatea Pinaki Reao Pukarua Vanavana Tureia Tematangi Moruroa Fangataufa Gambier Islands (Îles Gambier) Acteon Group (Groupe Actéon)...