Barnes Bay Quarantine and Internment Station
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Cartographic Name
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Barnes Bay Quarantine and Internment Station
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Identifier
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SITE-BAR
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category
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Quarantine Station
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temporalCoverage
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1885-1939
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sourceOrganization
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Quarantine Act 1832 (UK/Australia)
Quarantine Act 1908 (Cth)
War Precautions Act 1914 (Cth)
Public Health Act 1885 (Tas)
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text
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"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." 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, p. 89-90.
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"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." Carceral Island Studies. Nethery, Amy. “Separate and Invisible: A Carceral History of Australian Islands.” Shima: The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures, 2012, p.89.
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"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." Carceral Island Studies. Nethery, Amy. “Separate and Invisible: A Carceral History of Australian Islands.” Shima: The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures, 2012, p.89-90.
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Source
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Tasmanian Archives and Heritage Office (TAHO)
Australian Quarantine Service Records,
Bruny Island Historical Society
Nethery, Amy. Separate and Invisible: A Carceral History of Australian Islands. Shima 6, no. 2 (2012).
Duncombe, K. Bruny Island’s Quarantine Station in War and Peace. New Print, 2004.
Roscoe, Katherine. "Natural Hulk: Australia’s Carceral Islands in the Colonial Period, 1788–1901." International Review of Social History (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
Selleck, Paul, and Barnard, Ross. “The 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic: Plus ça change.” Microbiology Australia 2020 (MA20048).