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Latitude
-33.84700012
Longitude
151.1719971
Start Date
1830
End Date
1869

Description

Originally established as a prison in 1839 to house men transferred from Norfolk Island and Goat Island. The island was used for secondary punishment, with the initial stockade of tents and transportable boxes being replaced with barracks, cells, military and administrative buildings from locally quarried stone. Various industrial activities including excavating a dry dock.

Sources

ID
tcfc56

Extended Data

category
Convict
sitetype
Stockade