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Boolarong Press, 2010. New book, 286 pages. Several kilometres from the mouth of the Brisbane River lies St Helena Island. For more than 60 years from 1867, St Helena was home to thousands of society's outcasts, for here was located colonial Queensland's foremost prison for men. During those years, and in the decades following its closure in 1933, the lovely little island gained a fearful reputation as 'the hell hole of the Pacific' and 'Queenslands own Devil's Island', where men were reputedly 'kept chained by day and night', 'flogged to death' and 'hurried under the sod while their oppressors turned on those still living'. It was a place to dread for the colony's murderers, rapists, bushrangers, rebels, thieves and men of like violence and mayhem. They were subjected to the lash, the dreaded black hole, the gag and straight-jacket, and energy-sapping shot drill. Life could be tough on St Helena. It was a secure prison, but dozens of men…
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The St Helena Story: An Illustrated History of Colonial Queensland's Island Prison Paperback - 2010
by Finger, Jarvis
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- Title The St Helena Story: An Illustrated History of Colonial Queensland's Island Prison
- Author Finger, Jarvis
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- Publisher Boolarong Press
- Date 2010
- ISBN 9781921555442
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by Finger, Jarvis
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- 9781921555442 / 1921555440
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Boolarong Press, 2010. New book, 286 pages. Several kilometres from the mouth of the Brisbane River lies St Helena Island. For more than 60 years from 1867, St Helena was home to thousands of society's outcasts, for here was located colonial Queensland's foremost prison for men. During those years, and in the decades following its closure in 1933, the lovely little island gained a fearful reputation as 'the hell hole of the Pacific' and 'Queenslands own Devil's Island', where men were reputedly 'kept chained by day and night', 'flogged to death' and 'hurried under the sod while their oppressors turned on those still living'. It was a place to dread for the colony's murderers, rapists, bushrangers, rebels, thieves and men of like violence and mayhem. They were subjected to the lash, the dreaded black hole, the gag and straight-jacket, and energy-sapping shot drill. Life could be tough on St Helena. It was a secure prison, but dozens of men…
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