- Mar 25, 2021
Quarantine/Kamau Taurua Island
The best part of my Dunedin visit was the time I spent on the Quarantine Island/Kamau Taurua with Henry Johnson who suggested we do our recording for SICRI's new "Island Conversations Podcast Series" on this tiny but full of history island in Otago Harbour. It turned up to be a highly relevant trip given our pandemic times, this small island served as the quarantine station for Otago from 1863 until 1924 (one of four in NZ designated for this purpose). When ships arrived in O