Australian Geographic

Channel Island Leprosarium

TEN KILOMETRES south of Darwin, in the Northern Territory, the natural beauty of Channel Island and its surrounds belies its tragic past.

From 1931 to 1955, this island was a leper colony, and though some buildings were dismantled after its abandonment, others fell into ruins, which remain today. The surviving hospital foundations, collapsed huts, partial wall structures and

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