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Uncovering the legacy of UK nuclear tests on WA’s Montebello Islands

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Seventy years ago, the United Kingdom tested the largest atomic weapon ever detonated on Australian soil. Just over 100 kilometres off the north coast of Western Australia sits the Montebello Islands — its soil, sand and sediment is still radioactive years later.
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