Buildings in the Wharf Area

Aboriginal
Heritage

History
Immigration

Buildings
in 1999

Carvings
on site

Residents
in the past

Natural
Environment

Conservation
Plan

Wharf area

Hospital area

Asiatic

3rd Class area

2nd Class area

1st Class area

Staff  buildings

Facilities

Luggage Store

Fumigation rooms

Steam Cleaning

Shower Block

Power House

This was the first part of the Quarantine Station that passengers saw. If any infection broke out on a ship travelling to Sydney, the captain had to fly a yellow flag and moor at the Quarantine Station - not at Circular Quay.

Seriously ill people were taken straight to the hospital at the top of the hill behind the luggage store. Healthy people were housed on the station for the length of the incubation time for the illness that was on their ship

There is a pretty little beach here which was allowed to be used only by First Class passengers for relaxation and fishing. There is a drain on the beach just near the wharf out of which flowed the body fluids from the morgue and the runoff water from the cemetry. Maybe 2nd and 3rd class passengers were lucky!

The ships tied up at this wharf.
Passengers' luggage was stored
in the buildings on the right.
Carriages carrying luggage ran along the
railway line to the luggage store and also to the
steam cleaning centre on the left of the photo.

Luggage Store

Fumigation rooms

Steam Cleaning

Shower Block

Power House