Maralinga
- Country: Australia
- Role: Weapons Test
- Status: Decommissioned
- Year: 1956
Overview
British test field in the South Australian desert, site of seven major trials and hundreds of minor experiments from 1956 to 1963. A controversial 1967 cleanup was redone in the 1990s and the land was returned to the Maralinga Tjarutja people in 2009.
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