North Head Sanctuary
Windswept coastal headland of bushland trails, historic quarantine buildings and Aboriginal heritage sites overlooking the harbour entrance.
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About this audio guide
This guide to North Head Sanctuary in Sydney follows nurse Annie Egan, ordered to Manly's Quarantine Station in November 1918 to care for soldiers returning home with the Spanish flu. Within days she had caught it herself, and as her condition worsened she asked for one thing the federal government refused to allow. You'll hear how her plea, and the public reaction to it, played out over the days that followed. Listen near the old hospital wing, close to where she was treated.
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