Lavenday Bay Prison Hulk
- Name
- Lavenday Bay Prison Hulk
- Type of carceral site
- Penal settlement
- Dates of use
- 1825 – 1837
- Quote
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For decades after European arrival, Sydney Harbour's Lavender Bay housed a prison hulk - a floating prison off a terrestrial one. I'm haunted by the symbol it represents: a colonial society that never attempted true landfall.
Criticism.
Williamson, Geordie. On Alexis Wright: Writers on Writers. Black Inc Books, 2025, p. 22. - Authority
- Britain Home Secretary
- Contact
- Dashiell
- identifier
- SITE-LBY
- Item sets
- Carceral Sites