The Round House
Twelve-sided limestone jail above the harbour, once a lockup for prisoners bound for a penal island.
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This guide to the Round House in Fremantle turns on an eighteen eighty-two inspection report by the colony's own governor, and what he found inside its cells. It traces the building's earlier life as Western Australia's first jail, and its later role holding Noongar prisoners, including the leader Yagan, before they were shipped to the penal settlement on Wadjemup, Rottnest Island. It raises the question of how a jail built for sixteen people came to hold so many more.
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