Rottnest Island Prison
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Cartographic Name
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Rottnest Island Prison
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Identifier
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SITE-RIP
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category
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Reserve, Station, or Mission
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temporalCoverage
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1838-1931
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sourceOrganization
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British Colonial Authority
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text
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"I came in the steamer. I had a chain around my neck all the way down. I am cold in winter, my blanket is no good, it is old. I do not know when I am going back but I shall be very glad to go" Testimony. Widgie Widgie, Johnnie. Report of a Commission to Inquire into the Treatment of Aboriginal Native Prisoners of the Crown in This Colony. Government Printer, Perth, 1884.
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"Must’a been A wajella
Who invented this Hell
Wouldn’t know
For sure
But by the torture / I can tell.”
Carceral Poetry. Dixon, Graham. Holocaust Island. University of Queensland Press, 1990, p.1.