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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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Malcolm McKinnon, Otago places – Otago Harbour, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/22754/quarantine-island-otago-harbour (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Malcolm McKinnon, published 19 August 2009, updated 1 July 2015.