Story: Nearshore islands

Quarantine Island, Port Chalmers

Quarantine Island, Port Chalmers

For 30 years after 1863, Quarantine Island in Otago Harbour was used to house people who arrived on board ship with infectious diseases. The hospital buildings can be seen in this 1880 image.

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Alexander Turnbull Library
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Photograph by David Alexander De Maus

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Eileen McSaveney, 'Nearshore islands - Quarantine centres and prisons', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/13029/quarantine-island-port-chalmers (accessed 29 March 2024)

Story by Eileen McSaveney, published 24 Sep 2007