Leprosarium Island Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 5/19/2010
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:


A 30 cal. ammo box hidden within Channel Island Conservation Reserve. The cache contains a pencil log book and some small swaps . Entry is via a track located to the right hand side of the Park sign and locked vehicular gate.Follow the well graded track to the area where the cache is located. Kepp a look out for abundant wildlife..... kangaroos wallabies and birds!

The Channel Island Leprosarium was the site of a Quarantine Station, completed in September 1914, in the Northern Territory. It was one of four stations which were considered as "first-aid" or minor stations which were required to provide accommodation for all cases of actual quarantible disease likely to require action.
In 1930 a new Quarantine Station was opened on East Arm and Channel Island was converted to a Leprosarium. The Leprosarium is culturally significant as it provides a unique view of a compulsorily isolated group of people, existing under extreme physical and in some cases mental conditions. It also demonstrates the official policy of enforced segregation of diseased people. The ruins are evidence of the Quarantine requirements of the period including the segregation of inmates on the island. Its social significance is further enhanced by the fact that while the rest of the world was modifying its compulsory isolation laws, in Australia they were strengthened.

The natural environment of Channel Island is significant as a teaching site, for its geological features and mangroves and for the rocky reef with coral between the island and the mainland. The Channel Island Field Study Centre, the board walks through the mangroves, the geological features and the reef are all important teaching resources.

From an educational and research point of view the reef is a valuable resource because it demonstrates that a coral based community can survive in an area where most physical conditions are adverse if other conditions (such as strong currents) are met.

The Channel Island Reef is significant due to its relatively diverse coral community which is not consistent with its location well inside a large ria system characterised by substantial depression of salinity during the wet season, high turbidity and deep, fine muds over much of its area.

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