The Chinese characters painted on the rock above Sydney Harbour are slowly fading from view.
The Chinese characters painted on the rock at the old quarantine station at North Head 107 years ago are slowly fading from view.
About 13,000 passengers and crew from 580 “infectious” ships were quarantined at North Head from 1828. “They give you windows into so many people’s lives,” Q Station interpretation officer Helen Drew said. “For some, recording the name of their ship and the date they were here is what they wanted to be known, but for others, it was much more personal.
“The idea of repainting them is to just provide greater interpretation and highlight their significance for the time that we do have them.”
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