Cape Pallarenda Quarantine Station
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Cape Pallarenda Quarantine Station
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| Location | 1 The Esplanade, Pallarenda, City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 19°11′30″S 146°46′13″E / 19.1917°S 146.7703°ECoordinates: 19°11′30″S 146°46′13″E / 19.1917°S 146.7703°E |
| Built | 1915-1916 |
| Official name: Cape Pallarenda Quarantine Station (former), Northern Regional Office, Department of Environment and Resource Management, Northern Regional Office, Environmental Protection Agency, Cape Pallarenda Coastal Battery | |
| Type | state heritage (archaeological, built) |
| Designated | 23 April 1999 |
| Reference no. | 602133 |
| Significant period | 1884-1885, 1915-1916, c. 1942, 1973 (fabric) 1910s-1970s (historical) |
| Significant components | wall/s, cemetery, dining room, jetty/pier, laundry / wash house, disinfecting room, kitchen/kitchen house, shed - storage, gun emplacement, kerbing and channelling, searchlight emplacement, office/administration building, residential accommodation - quarters, bridge - foot/pedestrian, command post, weir, steps/stairway, shower block, slab/s - concrete, drainage, residential accommodation - manager's house/quarters, camouflage net securing points |
 Location of Cape Pallarenda Quarantine Station in Queensland
Location of Cape Pallarenda Quarantine Station in Queensland
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Cape Pallarenda Quarantine Station is a heritage-listed former quarantine station at 1 The Esplanade, Pallarenda, City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1915 to 1916. It is also known as Northern Regional Office, Department of Environment and Resource Management, Northern Regional Office, Environmental Protection Agency, and Cape Pallarenda Coastal Battery. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 23 April 1999. The building is part of Cape Pallarenda Conservation Park.
The former Quarantine Station at Cape Pallarenda was established between 1915-1916, using building materials previously used in the construction of an earlier quarantine station constructed in 1884-1885 at West Point, Magnetic Island.
The concept of isolating those parts of the community suffering from disease dates to 14th century Italy, when Venice, trying to protect the city from ship-born disease, established a segregated area away from the centre of population. These isolation areas became known as quarantine stations, from the Latin words for forty days after which time patients, if they were not dead were considered clear of disease.
Quarantine in the northern part of Australia began when the Moreton Bay District of New South Wales (later part of Queensland), established a quarantine station at Dunwich on Stradbroke Island in July 1849 after deaths were recorded on a ship arriving at Moreton Bay in January 1849. The introduction of disease into Northern Australia became an issue as the population of Australia increased after the discovery of gold in 1851, and in Queensland after the opening of a gold field at Crocodile Creek in Central Queensland in 1866. In 1867 the population expanded as a result of a rush of 15,000 diggers to new gold fields at Gympie, Central Queensland and Cape River, North Queensland.
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