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Quarantine Island, Otago Harbour

Quarantine Island, Otago Harbour

For 30 years from 1863 the hospital on Quarantine Island/Kamau Taurua took in shipboard arrivals with infectious diseases. These are the hospital buildings in 1880.

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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: 1/2-003221; G
Photograph by David Alexander De Maus

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Malcolm McKinnon. 'Otago places', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 21-Sep-11
URL: http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/otago-places/4/4