North Head Quarantine Station
The North Head Quarantine Station is located in New South Wales, Australia, overlooking Sydney harbour. The North Head Quarantine station was in full operation from 1828 to 1984. The construction of the station was made to quarantine against all of the potential diseases that people could bring over with them, these included cholera, smallpox, and the bubonic plague.
At peek periods there could be as many as 8 ships moored off Quarantine Beach and the Station would run out of accommodation, those without accommodation would be forced to camp on the surrounding hills, in generally miserable conditions. The healthy were sometimes called upon to clear surrounding bush land and construct hospital and residential buildings, which they did eagerly to break the monotony of being isolated for months on end with little else to do.
The atmosphere of the Station was sombre at best, as most of those quarantined had been forced to endure long voyages from the other side of the world on diseased ridden ships.
Not surprisingly the old Quarantine Station is now said to be the one of most haunted places in Australia, since records were first kept, reports of the ghosts of the doctors and nurses returning to haunt the station have flooded in.
The National parks and Wildlife Service regularly conducts a three hour ghost tour after sunset, where visitors are lead by tour guides through the winding unlit streets and buildings of the North Head Quarantine Station.
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