The ghost of Sarah Island and Macquarie Harbour
- Date of account
- Twentieth-century recollections of an earlier penal site
- Location
- Sarah Island, Tasmania
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
Sarah Island, the former convict settlement in Macquarie Harbour, acquired ghost stories connected with harsh punishment, isolation and the deaths of convicts. Reports associated with the abandoned site can help compare how a remembered landscape produces apparitions after institutional closure. The convict settlement and its historical records are secure, while the dating and wording of individual ghost reports are less certain. Researchers should look for Tasmanian newspapers, travel writing, heritage surveys and oral histories published before 1946 rather than relying on contemporary tourist pages.
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