Lavender Bay

Name (Cartographic): Lavender Bay
Indigenous place name: Gooweebahree
Indigenous Language Group: Cammeraygal
Languages Spoken: Cammeraygal; English
Quote: 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.

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Lavender Bay Prison Hulk	Organization