3D Models of Peel Island Lazaret, Australia

The Peel Island Lazaret is a former leprosy institution in Teerk Roo Ra (Peel Island) National Park, in Moreton Bay near Brisbane, Queensland. For 52 years, from 1907 to 1959, the northwestern corner of the island was a lazaret, a government institution designed to isolate people with Hansen's disease (leprosy). About 400 people were forcibly removed from their families and detained there by law. It was the only purpose-built, multiracial lazaret in Australia, housing Anglo-Australian, Indigenous, Melanesian, Indian and Asian patients from across Queensland, who were confined not only to the island but to individual huts and segregated compounds.

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