Rottnest Island
Former Aboriginal punitive prison island whose limestone quod cells later served as holiday lodging.
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This guide to Rottnest Island, known to the Noongar people as Wadjemup, near Perth, traces its decades as a punitive Aboriginal prison, from the first boatload of men in eighteen thirty-eight through the twenty-seven-year tenure of gaoler Henry Vincent. It follows the men and boys held in the limestone cells known as the Quod, and what later became of those buildings. Stand near the old prison walls to hear how a colonial punishment site became part of the island's everyday landscape.
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