Restricted military area

A restricted military area or military out-of-bounds area is an area under military jurisdiction where special security measures are used to prevent unauthorized entry.

Legal restrictions
Restricted military areas are associated with strict legal restrictions. In Australia, military bases cannot be sketched, drawn, photographed and people who do so are subject to 6 months imprisonment. Even approaching a base with equipment capable of doing those things is forbidden. In the United States, trespass of a military base without permission is punishable by six months imprisonment.

Restricted military areas have been relied upon as a legal justification for the eviction of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

In popular culture
Restrictions against access to military bases has been a source of pop-culture myths, as in the case of Area 51 in the United States. Classified activities on such bases and the secrecy surrounding those activities have captured public imagination. One such example is the Roswell incident, where debris from a classified military balloon became a UFO myth.

Works of fiction have been written about prominent military bases. The Australian TV series Pine Gap is one such series; with a narrative centring on joint defence operations at the international intelligence facility Pine Gap, south-west of Alice Springs, Australia.

List of notable restricted military areas
The following is a list of notable restricted military areas: