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The felon who is sent there is forever excluded from all hope of return.

Part of the instruction under which Governor Thomas Brisbane re-established Norfolk Island in 1825 as the harshest possible place of secondary transportation, intended as the furthest extreme of convict punishment.

Sir Thomas Brisbane, Norfolk Island

Source: Kingston and Arthur's Vale Historic Area, "British Penal Settlement 1825-1855"

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