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Torrens Island Concentration Camp

Adelaide, Italy

Torrens Island Concentration Camp

The Torrens Island Internment Camp was a World War I concentration camp, located on Torrens Island in the Port River Estuary near Adelaide in South Australia. The camp opened on 9 October 1914 and held up to 400 men of German or Austro-Hungarian background, or crew members of enemy ships who had bee

n caught in Australian ports at the beginning of the war. They were held without trial under the provisions of the War Precautions Act 1914.

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