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Barnes Bay Quarantine and Internment Station

Name
Barnes Bay Quarantine and Internment Station
Type of carceral site
Quarantine Station
Dates of use
1885 – 1939
Quote
The first permanent buildings were erected in 1885 [...] the construction of twenty-two buildings for the quarantine of over 9,000 servicemen on their return from war.
Journal Article, Carceral/Island Studies
Nethery, Amy. "Separate and Invisible: A Carceral History of Australian Islands." Shima: The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures, vol. 6, no. 2, 2012, pp. 85-98, http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30051113: pp. 89-90.
The quarantine station on Bruny Island was one of the few Australian quarantine stations that were purpose-built for the function, with the first permanent buildings erected in 1885 [...] it housed its first significant population as an enemy alien internment camp during World War One.
Journal Article, Carceral/Island Studies
Nethery, Amy. "Separate and Invisible: A Carceral History of Australian Islands." Shima: The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures, vol. 6, no. 2, 2012, pp. 85-98, http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30051113: p. 89.
Peninsulas and islands were considered good options for isolating passengers and crew of all arriving vessels, and people were detained whether they displayed symptoms of disease or not [...] Quarantine was arbitrary in the legal sense of the term, as passengers had no legal recourse to appeal their confinement.
Journal Article, Carceral/Island Studies.
Nethery, Amy. "Separate and Invisible: A Carceral History of Australian Islands." Shima: The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures, vol. 6, no. 2, 2012, pp. 85-98, http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30051113: pp. 89-90.
Authority
Quarantine Act 1832 (UK/Australia); Quarantine Act 1908 (Cth); War Precautions Act 1914 (Cth); Public Health Act 1885 (Tas)
Archives and sources
Australian Quarantine Service Records.
Bruny Island Historical Society.
Duncombe, K. Bruny Island's Quarantine Station in War and Peace. New Print, 2004.
Nethery, Amy. "Separate and Invisible: A Carceral History of Australian Islands." Shima: The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures, vol. 6, no. 2, 2012, pp. 85-98, http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30051113.
Roscoe, Katherine. "Natural Hulk: Australia's Carceral Islands in the Colonial Period, 1788-1901." International Review of Social History, vol 63, S26, June 2018, pp. 1-19, DOI:10.1017/S0020859018000214.
Selleck, Paul, and Barnard, Ross. "The 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic: plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose." Microbiology Australia, vol. 41, no. 4, 2020, pp. 177-182, https://doi.org/10.1071/ma20049.
Tasmanian Archives and Heritage Office (TAHO),
location
Bruny Island, Lunawanna Allonah
Contact
Kieren
identifier
SITE-BAR
Item sets
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Media
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