A new Edith Cowan University research project hopes to collect important data on the impact of historical nuclear testing in the remote Montebello Islands area. Sixty years after the British ...

When Ray Whitby and a handful of Australian Navy colleagues stepped onto an island off the WA coast after Britain had just wrapped-up its nuclear weapons testing, they had no idea their lives would be ...

Scientists have found that a 70-year-old nuclear test site off the coast of Western Australia is still showing dangerously high levels of plutonium - and could stay that way for thousands of year. The ...

A radiation risk remains to both marine life and tourists around the site of Britain's first nuclear test, which was located off of the coast of Western Australia. Comprising more than 250 low-lying ...

SCIENTISTS are confident that two locally extinct bird species can be successfully re-established on the Montebello Islands, 130km off the Pilbara coast after almost 70 birds were airlifted there from ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Robert Drewe has long mined his West Australian upbringing for writing inspiration. Now, the 1950s British nuclear tests off the Pilbara ...

A son, a daughter and a grandson of Australian servicemen exposed to nuclear testing have made an emotional pilgrimage up to the remote Montebello Islands to capture details of an era with – literally ...

Environment Minister David Templeman today announced plans to include all of the Barrow Island Marine Park and about 49 per cent of the Montebello Islands Marine Park in sanctuary zones by the end of ...

WHEN it comes to amazing destinations, I have certainly ticked off a few over the years. But there is one place I have always wanted to visit, not because I have heard so much about it, in fact quite ...

WHEN it comes to amazing destinations, I have certainly ticked off a few over the years. But there is one place I have always wanted to visit, not because I have heard so much about it, in fact quite ...