“My object was to hold out that settlement as a place of the extremest punishment, short of death.”
Governor Ralph Darling's stated intent for reviving Norfolk Island as a place of secondary punishment for twice-convicted offenders during the harsh second penal settlement era.
— Sir Ralph Darling, Norfolk Island
Source: Kingston and Arthur's Vale Historic Area, "British Penal Settlement 1825-1855"; The National Archives (UK), "Norfolk Island: the ultra-penal colony"
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