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Name
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Fantome Island Lock Hospital and Lazaret
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Type of carceral site
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Reserve, Station, or Mission
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Dates of use
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1928 – 1973
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Quote
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No need for high stone walls
The sea surrounds us, guards us
The silence of waves replaces barbed wire.
Memoirs/History.
Kathy Gibson qtd. in Bell, Jack. Fantome Island: Family Photographs and Drawings. Gibson Family Collection, 2018, n.p.
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You believe you're there to die, you describe yourself as a living dead, listening to songs such as Peace in the Valley, people were preparing themselves for the time to come.
Documentary.
Selwyn Joe Englomesse qtd. in Gilligan, Sean. Fantome Island. Gilligan Media Productions, 2011.
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Authority
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Leprosy Act 1892 (Quensland); Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act 1897 (Queensland)
