quarantine at Point Nepean...

OK here...Teaching plans changed AGAIN...a pain...But I ask, why hasn't the fed govt considered Point Nepean as a federal quarantine station? It's been used before...Lots of space...Security can be housed there...separate from Melbourne...Used early history...Greg Hunt knows😠...

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) February 12, 2021

Fed govt should use Mornington Peninsula's Quarantine Station at Point Nepean - played a vital role in keeping early Victorians well away from those carrying disease, with a period of intense activity to shield the colony from the Spanish Flu in 1919. https://t.co/pUeUAk8PdF

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) February 12, 2021

Agree...There should be more than one option...Christmas Island in Australia's north + Point Nepean in the south...Why hasn't the fed govt considered these 2 viable options? There is already a quarantine station at Howard Springs in NT, but we need more... https://t.co/2vjTRwYpKe

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) February 12, 2021

19th C fears of smallpox+other diseases in rapidly developing colonies. Quarantine stations temporarily confined crew+passengers upon arrival in Australia.
Islands were a preferable location.
12 quarantine stations established at Australia's major entry ports.
Good idea? pic.twitter.com/pgsHTzzVuS

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) February 13, 2021

Australia's quarantine site...

Australia's quarantine site, at Howard Springs, Northern Territory...known as Managurr-Ma Village.
HS was a camp for workers at the Inpex gas project. Project complete 👉 NT government.
3,780 international arrivals have quarantined at the NT facility.https://t.co/bduCA5HxOJ pic.twitter.com/rsP4M6uKqz

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) February 7, 2021

It makes me wonder why Point Nepean on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria can't be used as a quarantine site...as it was in early days... 

I am not recommending using the iconic old buildings, but rather using the huge space around and construct new ones...????

charity run in quarantine? ...

Pushing the boundaries...It can be done... Read to the end and the 'beer' connection... Very cute...
Man completes 60-kilometre charity run in Adelaide hotel room during coronavirus quarantine https://t.co/I01XnuAT8s

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) August 17, 2020

Shelley and quarantine...

This would have to be the most bizarre outcome of quarantine rulings. It is said that wife Mary wrapped the heart in a silken shroud and carried it with her. When found in her desk, it was wrapped in the pages of one of his last poems, 'Adonais'. https://t.co/gUKThNsWii

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) April 26, 2020

More details about Mary Shelley and her husband's heart on
Mental Floss - Mary Shelley's Favourite Keepsake

1919 Spanish flu, quarantine + Point Nepean...

Aerial view of the Point Nepean Quarantine station on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria
during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1919.
12 temporary wooden bunkhouses (shown above, bottom left) were erected at the site, to cater for passengers, many of them soldiers returning from WWI, who showed symptoms.
At the peak of the pandemic, several thousand people were interred at the station.
Around the turn of the century, a modern disinfecting station, had been built.
The disinfecting equipment was state of the art,
and consisted of a large scale ‘oven’ and rail delivery system.
Patients would be sent to the disinfecting area on first arrival,
discard their clothes and luggage, which would then be run through the oven and heated,
to destroy bacteria.
These improvements were the last undertaken by the state government;
in October 1901, Australia’s new Federal government would assume control of the facility.
Source: The Museum of Lost Things

I took the following photos in January 2012...






The photos below I took in September 2013