Torrens Island Concentration Camp - The Sites Today

The Sites Today

The locations of the sites of the Torrens Island Internment Camp are known fairly accurately, but there is no physical evidence remaining today. The site of the first camp was on the western side of the island on the bank of the Port River, a few hundred metres south of the Quarantine Station, much of which still stands. The internment site was a tented encampment occupied for only five months, October 1914 to March 1915, and was then systematically removed. Nothing can be identified on the site today. The site of the second camp was at the southern end of the island on the bank of Angas Inlet, and occupied from March to August 1915. It too was systematically removed, and anything that remained was later completely obliterated by modern construction. The site is under or close to the switchyard of Section B of the Torrens Island Power Station, built in 1973.