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Latitude
-35.028337
Longitude
117.879632
Start Date
1826
End Date
1831

Description

Established 1826 by Maj. Edmund Lockyer as a military settlement against the possibility of a French colonisation, with 20 troops of the 39th Regiment and 23 convicts. Military and convicts withdrawn in March 1831 with the settlement given over to be the Swan River Colony and renamed Albany.

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ID
tcfc9d

Extended Data

category
Convict
sitetype
Prisoner barracks