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Adelaide Gaol

Layer
Australian Prisons
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Type
Other

Details

Latitude
-34.9176
Longitude
138.585
Start Date
1841
End Date
1988

Description

When British colonists first arrived in South Australia from 1836, they initially kept the occasional prisoners they had in irons aboard moored ships. A temporary wooden gaol was erected in 1838, a facility that quickly became over-crowded, necessitating a more permanent structure. This gaol, which had capacity to hold 140 prisoners,?was completed in 1841. Additions and renovations to the gaol occurred periodically across the twentieth century, until the gaol was eventually decommissioned in 1988. Today the gaol is a heritage site that is open to the public.

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ID
t969