North Head Quarantine Station
Former isolation hospital on a harbour headland, its sandstone cliffs carved with over a thousand six hundred passenger inscriptions.
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This guide to North Head Quarantine Station in Sydney follows the Lady MacNaghten, a ship that arrived from Cork in early 1837 with typhus tearing through its steerage passengers, and the weeks authorities left the sick aboard before shore facilities went up. It follows the ship's surgeon, Doctor Hawkins, who caught the fever tending patients and was buried on the headland he had only meant to pass through. Walk down toward the jetty and look at the sandstone underfoot for what generations of quarantined passengers left behind.
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