The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
NEAR ROUGH RANGE, WESTERN AUSTRALIA, OCTOBER 1952. AFTER A FEW DAYS OF HARD WORK BY THE PRESS EXPEDITION SENT FROM PERTH TO MONITOR THE BRITISH ATOMIC TEST ON THE MONTE BELLO ISLANDS, A PHOTOGRAPHIC DARKROOM WAS BUILT ON TOP OF THE HILL AND LONG RANGE CAMERAS HAD BEEN SET UP. WITH THESE SPECIAL CA MERAS PRESSMEN PHOTOGRAPHED THE EXPLOSION 60 MILES AWAY. SOON AFTER THE OBSERVATION POST WAS ESTABLISHED, ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE AIRCRAFT FLEW OVER, PIN- POINTING THE POSITION AND TAKING PICTURES OF THE INSTALLATIONS.
NEAR ROUGH RANGE, WESTERN AUSTRALIA, OCTOBER 1952. THE FINISHED HILLTOP OBSERVATION POST BUILT BY THE PRESS EXPEDITION FROM PERTH TO MONITOR THE BRITISH ATOMIC TEST ON THE MONTE BELLO ISLANDS. PRESS P
NEAR ROUGH RANGE, WESTERN AUSTRALIA, OCTOBER 1952. THE FINISHED HILLTOP OBSERVATION POST BUILT BY THE PRESS EXPEDITION FROM PERTH TO MONITOR THE BRITISH ATOMIC TEST ON THE MONTE BELLO ISLANDS. PRESS P
NEAR ROUGH RANGE, WESTERN AUSTRALIA, OCTOBER 1952. AS "A- DAY" APPROACHED, PHOTOGRAPHERS OF THE PRESS EXPEDITION FROM PERTH WHO CAME TO COVER THE BRITISH ATOMIC TEST ON THE MONTE BELLO ISLANDS, 60 MIL
NEAR ROUGH RANGE, WESTERN AUSTRALIA, OCTOBER 1952. AS "A- DAY" APPROACHED, PHOTOGRAPHERS OF THE PRESS EXPEDITION FROM PERTH WHO CAME TO COVER THE BRITISH ATOMIC TEST ON THE MONTE BELLO ISLANDS, 60 MIL
NEAR ROUGH RANGE, WA. 1952-10. SOME OF THE EQUIPMENT ON THE OBSERVATION HILL BROUGHT IN BY THE PRESS EXPEDITION TO MONITOR THE BRITISH ATOMIC TEST ON THE MONTE BELLO ISLANDS. A TELEPHONE OPERATED BETW
NEAR ROUGH RANGE, WESTERN AUSTRALIA, 1952. BRITISH ATOMIC TESTS ON THE MONTE BELLO ISLANDS, WA, IN OCTOBER 1952. THE HUGE PRESS CAMERAS, USED BY THE PRESS EXPEDITION FROM PERTH MONITORING THE ATOMIC T
