Maralinga Tours

Maralinga Tours now gives you an opportunity to visit the Maralinga Atomic Testing grounds, a site hitherto out of bounds since the British nuclear program finished in 1963.

Located in the remote area to the north west of Ceduna, in South Australia, Maralinga has had extensive and expensive cleaning up and rehabilitation, supervised by the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA). The third and final clean-up was completed in 2000 and visitors can now safely join a conducted tour of the remediated grounds that hosted seven nuclear weapons tests in the 1950s.

Learn about a very, very dark chapter in Australia’s history. One Tree, Marco, Kite, Breakaway, Tadje, Biak and Taranaki: innocuous sounding names that at the time provided headlines in the British and Australian press that heralded a growing capacity for Britain to offer a nuclear deterrent to the perceived threat of the Cold War.