Editing Brook Islands National Park (section)

==History==
North Brook Island, the largest in the group, was in 1944 the venue for a series of British and American tests on the military uses of [[mustard gas]]. Pits were dug and Japanese-style dugouts were constructed to aid this testing.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Goodwin |first=Bridget |title=Keen as mustard: Britain's horrific chemical warfare experiments in Australia |date=1998 |publisher=University of Queensland Press |isbn=978-0-7022-2941-1 |edition=1. publ |location=St. Lucia}}</ref> Virtually no trace of this remains.<ref name=":0" /> A documentary film relating to these and other tests, was released by [[Film Australia]] in 1989.<gallery>
File:Aerial view of the island with smoke rising from where an aircraft has dropped a high explosive.jpg|Aerial view of North Brook Island with smoke rising from a bomb test
File:BROOK ISLAND, QLD. 1944-03-01. MEMBERS OF THE AUSTRALIAN CHEMICAL WARFARE RESEARCH.jpg|Australian Army staff bringing goats onto the island for mustard gas chemical weapon testing
File:BROOK ISLAND, QLD. c. 1944-03-03. 252099 FLIGHT LIEUTENANT A.H. TREWIN RAAF TAKING SAMPLES.jpg|Australian Army staff preparing mustard gas with goat waiting in Japanese-style dugout
File:Jack Legge & Olive Lucas checking goats in weapons pit prior to mustard gas experiment Brook Island 3 March 1944.jpg|Army staff preparing for mustard gas test
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