Trimouille island

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Trimouille Island (area about 510 hectares) is one of the Montebello Islands, north of Barrow Island, off the Pilbara coast of Western Australia. The northern end was the site of the British G1 nuclear test in 1956.

Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montebello_Islands

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Coordinates: 20°23'58"S 115°33'53"E

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saturner

On 2nd of October 1952, Britain becomes the world's third nuclear power by testing a bomb off Trimouille Island near Australia.

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