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Kōrero: Otago places

Quarantine Island, Otago Harbour

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Quarantine Island, Otago Harbour
For 30 years from 1863 the hospital on Quarantine Island/Kamau Taurua took in shipboard arrivals with infectious diseases. These are the hospital buildings in 1880.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: 1/2-003221; G

by David Alexander De Maus

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Malcolm McKinnon, Otago places – Otago Harbour, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/22754/quarantine-island-otago-harbour (accessed 24 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Malcolm McKinnon, i tāngia i te 19 August 2009, updated 1 July 2015.