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Name
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Sydney Cove Convict Settlement
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Type of carceral site
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Penal Settlement
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Dates of use
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1788 – 2026
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Quote
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There was no need of lock, of door, of wall; this was a prison whose bars were ten thousand miles of water.
Novel, Historical Fiction.
Grenville, Kate. The Secret River. Text Publishing, 2005, p. 3.
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... the testimony given by an Aboriginal man known as Mahroot to a parliamentary select committee in 1845. Mahroot claimed that he was the last male survivor of the original people from around Botany Bay at the time of Cook.
Aboriginal History.
Nugent, Maria. Botany Bay: Where Histories Meet. Allen & Unwin, 2005, p. 30.
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Authority
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Britain Home Secretary
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Contact
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Dashiell
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identifier
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SITE-SYDC
Sydney Cove, Warrane
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