The Historian · Ava · Sydney
Cockatoo Island / Wareamah
This island held the colony's worst-punished, then its unwanted girls, then built its warships. Three eras of hard labour, one rock.
The largest harbour island — a brutal 1839 convict prison, then a girls' reformatory and shipyard, now a UNESCO site reached by ferry.
— Ava, The Historian
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