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Maralinga
Maralinga
in the remote western areas of
South Australia
was the home of the
Maralinga Tjarutja
, a southern
Pitjantjatjara
Indigenous Australian
people. Maralinga was the site of the secret
British nuclear tests
in the 1950s. The site measures about 3,300 km² in area. In January 1985, the
Maralinga Tjarutja
native title
land was handed back to the Maralinga people under the Maralinga Tjarutja Land Rights Act, 1984 passed by both houses of the
South Australian
Parliament in December 1984 and proclaimed in January 1987.
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