In 1952, the first British atomic bomb was detonated on the MonteBello Islands off north-west Australia.
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That's remarkable considering that "mountain grapes" in the U.S., such as those from Ridge's famous MonteBello vineyard, grow at, say, 1, 300 to 2, 600 feet.
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MonteBello fell into desuetude during Prohibition, and a portion was replanted in the '40s by William Short, a Unitarian minister jailed as a conscientious objector throughout World War I.
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