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Name
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Sunday Island Mission
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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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1899 – 1964
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Quote
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Still islands, islands, islands. After leaving Cape Bougainville we passed atleast 500, of every shape, size, and appearance... Infinitely varied as theseislands are – wild and picturesque, grand sometimes almost to sublimity –there is about them all an air of dreariness and gloom. No sign of lifeappears on their surface; scarcely even a sea bird hovers on their shores.They seem abandoned by Nature to complete and everlasting desolation.
Autobiographical Narrative
Jefferson Stow, Voyage of the Forlorn Hope, 1865. qtd. in Stow, Randolph. To the Islands. Revised edition. London: Secker and Warburg, 1982, p. v.
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The Island, as described by Mrs Street, is very small, only about four miles long by three miles wide, and is the permanent home of some 120 native people, although visitors come and go from the mainland and surrounding islands. [...] The Mission runs a school for the children, and dormitories for those without parents or whose parents are away. Endeavours are made to make the parents responsible for their children as far as possible and to look after them in a proper manner. [...] Mrs. Street said she could not say whether black-blrdln'g was carried, on by the pearlers, as had been alleged recently, but she would not say it was not, as Sunday Island was farther south than the territory concerned.
Newspaper article.
"Sunday Island Mission", The Mercury (Hobart), 19th December, 1933, p. 12.
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Authority
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Australian Aborigines' Mission (AAM). Aborigines Act 1905 (WA)
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Contact
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Dashiell
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identifier
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SITE-SIM