Australia's 'TOP SECRET' sites uncovered by Google Earth..!

[jackovesk]

Note: Due to picture Constaints - This post will be in 2 Parts...

Part 1

• Remoteness gives sites no protection from Google
• Featuring drone bases, missile sites and SAS training camps

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Top Secret sites: one of the world's biggest spy bases is located in the middle of Australia at Pine Gap, NT. Picture: Google Earth

AUSTRALIA's most secret sites are hidden well away from prying eyes, usually far from major population areas. But no one escapes the all-seeing eye of Google.

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Top Secret sites: one of the world's biggest spy bases is located in the middle of central Australia at Pine Gap, NT. Source: Supplied


As Australian and British foreign and defence officials meet in Perth today to discuss stronger military ties, here's our virtual tour of Australia's most secret military and government sites.

Attention: See this ...'Thread' (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?54530-UK-Foreign-Secretary-William-Hague-DUMPS-the-MOTHERLOAD-on-World-Govt.-Globalist-Agenda..-)

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Top Secret sites: the new Australian Security Intelligence Organisation HQ in Canberra. Source: Google Earth Source: Supplied

ASIO, ACT (spy agency HQ)

The new Australian Security Intelligence Organisation HQ in Canberra will house Australia's national security service, responsible for protecting us from espionage, sabotage, attacks on the Australian defence system and terrorism. ASIO officers have similar powers to the UK's Security Service (M15), and do not carry guns.

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Top secret sites: Campbell Barracks in Swanbourne, the base of the Australian Special Air Service. Photo: Google Earth Source: Supplied

Campbell Barracks, WA (SAS HQ)

Located in suburban Perth, the low-key army base in Swanbourne, has been the base of the Australian Special Air Service (SAS) since the Regiment was established in 1957. Most training takes place at Bindoon army base, northeast of Perth, which includes live-fire ranges, training areas and an SAS mock-up area with 'embassy' building and sniper towers, but is impossible to find on Google Maps.

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Top Secret sites: Christmas Island, offshore detention centre in the Indian Ocean. Source: Google Earth Source: Supplied

Christmas Island, Indian Ocean (detention centre)

Home to 1500 Australian citizens, mostly of Chinese ethnicity, Christmas Island was a thriving phosphate producer before transfer to Australian sovereignty in 1957. Since the MV Tampa controversy in 2001, the island has been the primary goal of asylum seekers attempting to enter Australia. Opened in 2006, the Immigration Detention Centre contains approximately 800 beds, and cost $400m, double the estimated budget.

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Top Secret sites: Australian Defence Satellite Communications Ground Station at Kojarena, WA. Source: Google Earth Source: Supplied

Kojarena, WA (defence satellite station)

The Australian Defence Satellite Communications Ground Station is located at Kojarena, 30 km east of Geraldton. It is operated by the ADF Defence Signals Division, and houses five radomes and eight satellite antennas linked to a worldwide satellite communication signals interception system that is mainly operated by the US and UK.

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Top Secret sites: Maralinga, SA, site of seven secret British nuclear tests in the 1950s. Picture: Google Earth Source: Supplied

Maralinga, SA (nuclear test site)

The ancient home of the Maralinga Tjarutja indigenous people, Maralinga was the site of seven secret British nuclear tests in the 1950s, with four fission bomb tests followed by three tests of triggering mechanisms. A Royal Commission in 1985 identified significant contamination at the site. Native title was handed back to the traditional owners in January 1987 and efforts were made to clean up the site before resettling the land in 1995.

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Top Secret sites: Nauru offshore detention centre in the Pacific Ocean. Source: Google Earth Source: Supplied

Nauru, Pacific Ocean (detention centre)

Originally opened in 2001 to take people rescued by the MV Tampa, the detention centre on the tiny island of Nauru was built to house 1200 asylum seekers in return for a pledge of $30m in development funds. Closed by Kevin Rudd in December 2007, the camp was reopened by the Gillard government in August 2012 to process record numbers of asylum seekers arriving by boat.

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Top Secret sites: North West Cape, US Navy signals base near Exmouth, WA. Source: Google Earth Source: Supplied

North West Cape, WA (US naval signals)

Naval Communication Station Harold E. Holt is located 6km north of Exmouth, which was built to provide support to the base and house dependent families of US Navy personnel. The base provides very low frequency (VLF) radio transmission to US and Royal Australian Navy ships and submarines in the Pacific and Indian Oceans and is the most powerful transmission station in the Southern Hemisphere.

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[jackovesk]

Part 2

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Top Secret sites: Nurrungar, mothballed ballistic missile control site near Woomera, SA. Source: Google Earth Source: Supplied

Nurrungar, SA (ballistic missile control)

Located on the edge of Island Lagoon, approximately 15 km south of Woomera, Nurrungar was run by the ADF and the US Air Force from 1969 to 1999. It provided early detection of missile launches and nuclear detonations via US satellites in geostationary orbits. Operations moved to Pine Gap in 1999. Today the ADF uses the site for army tests.

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Top Secret sites: one of the world's biggest spy bases is located in the middle of Australia at Pine Gap, NT. Source: Google Earth Source: Supplied

Pine Gap, NT (US listening post)

Probably the best known secret installation in Australia, Pine Gap near Alice Springs is one of the biggest ECHELON signals intelligence facilities in the world, with an estimated 1000 employees. A former US National Security employee who worked at Pine Gap has claimed that the facility is run by the CIA. Pine Gap controls American spy satellites as they fly over China, North Korea, Afghanistan and the Middle East.

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Top Secret sites: SIS and special forces training centre, Swan Island, Victoria. Source: Google Earth Source: Supplied

Swan Island, VIC (special forces)The Department of Defence does not discuss what goes on at Swan Island, and information on the facility is not found on any government website. It is believed that Australia's Special Forces carry out counter terrorism training here on a base shared with the Secret Intelligence Service.

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Top Secret sites: RAAF Scherger, advance air force base and detention centre. Far North Queensland. Source: Google Earth Source: Supplied

Scherger, QLD (detention centre)

Villawood and Darwin are well known immigration detention centres, but did you know that up to 600 asylum seekers at any one time are housed at a facility at RAAF Scherger in Far North Queensland? One of three 'bare bases' in the tropics run by skeleton crews, Scherger is set up to house 1400 personnel and 40 aircraft if Australia ever gets into a shooting war with one of our northern neighbours.

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Top Secret sites: govenrment panic room in Symonston, suburban Canberra. Source: Google Earth Source: Supplied

Symonston, ACT (government panic room)

Protected by heavy gates, security fences and an array of CCTV cameras on a nondescript Canberra industrial estate, the main purpose of the classified facility at Symonston is believed to be to provide an alternative communications facility for the Australian government. Under the so-called "Plan Mercator", this is where the Prime Minister, Governor-General and advisers would be whisked to in the event of a terrorist attack or threat against Parliament House.

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Top Secret sites: fast jets and visiting bombers are housed at RAAF Tindal, near Katherine, NT. Source: Google Earth Source: Supplied

Tindal, NT (fast jets, stealth bombers)

Located near Katherine in the NT, RAAF Tindal houses the RAAF's fast jets outside the cyclone zone at a site easy to defend against external attack. A key launching point for the Australian-led intervention in East Timor in 1999, the base is also rumoured to host US stealth spy planes.

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Top Secret sites: Woomera Test Range, SA, the largest weapons testing range in the world. Source: Google Earth Source: Supplied

Woomera, SA (weapons tests, drones)

The Woomera Test Range in South Australia is a large weapons testing range operated by the RAAF, 500km northwest of Adelaide. A prohibited area off-limits to the public, the range was set up by Britain and Australia in 1946 and was the site for seven nuclear tests between 1955 and 1963 as well as tests for a wide range of conventional weapons before the Australian-Anglo joint project ended in 1980. After a long period when it was effectively abandoned, the range is currently used for ADF trials and leased to foreign militaries.

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Top Secret sites: British stealth drone bomber Taranis, undergoing testing in the Australian outback in early-2013. Photo: BAE Source: Supplied

Woomera Test Range

Woomera is the most likely test site for new British stealth drone Taranis, which will be conducting outback test flights in early 2013. At its peak the range covered 270,000 square km. Today it covers 127,000 square km, and remains the world's largest weapons test range.

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Full Gallery of Photo's can be found here...

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PS - I think there missing 1 or 2 sites here, do you think you can tell what thay might be..?

[mahalall]

nKyo_AOyEnc

Strangely odd to note (as highlighted by Sky news) The developmental site of the Taranis is in Warton, a village just 5 miles from a town with the 3rd largest Muslim community in the UK.

A place where allegations of vote-rigging and corruption have dogged the town council, with members of the Muslim community reportedly being strong-armed by mosque leaders. In April 2005, local councillor Mohammed Hussain was jailed for three years for rigging the town hall election.



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[bogeyman]

And when it crashes all that lovely highly classified technology will be developed for a fraction of the price by an enemy government.:rolleyes:

[Carmody]

Opened in 2006, the Immigration Detention Centre contains approximately 800 beds, and cost $400m, double the estimated budget.

Very isolated, that one.

Good candidate for a rendition center.

Probably the kind of reason it "costs twice as much as estimated'.

[andrewgreen]

I worked in Alice Springs which is a fairly large town not too far from Pine Gap. I met a lot of people people who worked at Pine Gap and they were good people. A lot of them were scientist's, one British lady I met near from where I'm from back home studied an astrophysics course so their is obviously a lot of research going on there. All of them found it very funny when I suggested Aliens were contained in the facility, because their is lots of UFO sightings in the area.

[bogeyman]

All of them found it very funny when I suggested Aliens were contained in the facility, because their is lots of UFO sightings in the area.


This is the problem with statements without evidence...and also it is a matter of regardless of how educated you are, are people mentally and socially capable of even considering alien life, when many are just wrapped up in existing?

[norman]

Woomera, SA (weapons tests, drones)

The Woomera Test Range in South Australia is a large weapons testing range operated by the RAAF, 500km northwest of Adelaide. A prohibited area off-limits to the public, the range was set up by Britain and Australia in 1946 and was the site for seven nuclear tests between 1955 and 1963 as well as tests for a wide range of conventional weapons before the Australian-Anglo joint project ended in 1980. After a long period when it was effectively abandoned, the range is currently used for ADF trials and leased to foreign militaries.

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Top Secret sites: British stealth drone bomber Taranis, undergoing testing in the Australian outback in early-2013. Photo: BAE Source: Supplied

Woomera Test Range

Woomera is the most likely test site for new British stealth drone Taranis, which will be conducting outback test flights in early 2013. At its peak the range covered 270,000 square km. Today it covers 127,000 square km, and remains the world's largest weapons test range.








Check the date of this New Scientist article....................

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19162



Warning sounded over British dogfighting drone

15:40 12 July 2010 by Paul Marks, Warton
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Sporting a gaping air intake in place of a cockpit, the UK's first uncrewed fighter aircraft was unveiled at an airfield in Warton, Lancashire, today.

Called Taranis, the wedge-shaped, 8-tonne stealth jet will be able to fly regular drone missions in regions of conflict – but it will also be able to seek and destroy enemy aircraft in dogfights. However, the high degree of autonomy promised by the makers has some observers concerned that the aircraft may decide on its own what constitutes a target.

Taranis is the UK government's response to the dominance of US technology in the uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) market, where aircraft such as the General Atomics Predator reign supreme. Taranis is the outcome of a 2006 Ministry of Defence decision to develop and fly an uncrewed plane that goes one better than the US systems by using a customised Rolls Royce jet engine rather than a propeller. The result is a fast, highly manoeuvrable fighter jet.

Today, the Ministry of Defence and the UK-based military technology company BAE Systems unveiled the fruits of that development in a high-security roll-out of their Uncrewed Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV). But after reading pre-launch information one expert has raised concerns about the technology.
Ahead of the game

"Taranis looks set to put the UK ahead of the game in UCAVs," says Noel Sharkey, a robotics engineer specialising in the autonomous military systems at the University of Sheffield in the UK.

"But warning bells ring for me when they talk about Taranis being 'a fully autonomous intelligent system' together with applications in 'deep missions' and having a 'deep target attack' capability."

Sharkey says that "deep mission" is military speak for "beyond the reach of a remote pilot". "We need to know if this means the robot planes will chose their own targets and destroy them – because they certainly will not have the intelligence to discriminate between civilians and combatants."

The mine clearance charity Landmine Action, based in London, has already expressed its concerns that creeping autonomy in military technology is creating robots that are capable of deciding for themselves what constitutes a target – making them as indiscriminate as a landmine.

Gerald Howarth, the UK minister for international security strategy, says that Taranis will use minimal human intervention but can be remotely piloted at any time.

When asked whether Taranis and later UCAVs based on its technology would ever make their own targeting decisions, air chief marshal Simon Bryant of the UK's Royal Air Force said: "This is a very sensitive area we are paying a lot of attention to."

He thinks worries like those expressed by Sharkey are unfounded. "We do need to understand where autonomy will be bounded in the future. But for strategic effect we will always have a man in the loop – we cannot afford to do otherwise."

[Earth Angel]

AUSTRALIA's most secret sites are hidden well away from prying eyes, usually far from major population areas. But no one escapes the all-seeing eye of Google.

there are parts of Ireland, a very tiny country by comparison to Australia, that are blocked out on google earth

[bogeyman]

Underground facilities or well camouflaged buildings, or facilities that blend in the with background, maybe beyond Google Earth.

[Positive Vibe Merchant]

Swan island? Wow, right in my backyard. I will have to look more closely into this. Thanks Jacko :)

[mahalall]

Pondering on the nature of top secret facilities.

Certainly Secrecy in the conventional sense exists but apply a little energy to those images and they begin to expand and open.

Example, The image of Kalachakra could be viewed as a pretty picture, but apply a little energy on the view and soon it expands into a 3d construct, expanding further with sound and one enters it's universal construct.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXsU0ePNhpg

Applying energy on these so called top secret facilities and one might soon find themselves walking within their corridors.

The question is does one really want to be associated with the white cobras within these facilities? Sooner or later what ever their dimensional construct and their portals of entry, if we were to be there we would be there. So if one was to suddenly turn up uninvited it's unlikely you'd be offered a cup of tea, at least hope that your guardian associated entity has some weight so that they throw you out or your not going to come out.