The Kimberley coast escaped contamination by Australia's worst offshore oil spill, the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) has found.The massive spill in the Timor Sea began on August 21 last year and continued until it was plugged in November.
The spill prompted the EPA to investigate and testing was conducted on water, sand and pearl oysters in October and December last year.
The samples were taken from islands, four pearl farms and peninsulas from Camden Sound in the south to the Stewart Islands in the northeast.
The EPA report found no petroleum hydrocarbons in any of the water or shoreline sediment samples at concentrations above the analytical limits of detection.
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