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After 20 lashes with the cat o nine tales most prisoners collapsed

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Prisoners were banned from having tools, games or ropes

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Raised
flags to signal the mainland

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The st Helena prison was used as a jail for 66 years from 1867

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The last prisoner left the island on the 15th of February 1933

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St. Helena prison opened in 1867 and used as a prison for 66 years

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Mathew flinders was the man who discover st Helena island

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Over 75 tonnes of sugarcane was grown and  crouched on the Island

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Two escapees either drowned or were eaten by sharks in Moreton bay.

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The last prisoner on the island left on the 15th of February 1933

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Prisoners where banned from having tools games and ropes

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Children and woman where aloud

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Was hominy

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They hunted dugong for their presuious oil

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They hunted dugong for their presuious oil

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By Hunter C and Hunter H

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Breakfast was always hominy- a porridge made from milk and water

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They hunted dugong off

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Some schools were used to

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For breakfast they a hominy a form of (porridge) called hominy

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The Aboriginal name for St Helena is Nugoon.

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The island used to be called nugoon named after an aboriginal man

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St. Helena prison opened in 1867

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1 prisoner tried to escape in a bathtub 🛁🛁🛁

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There was a man called Thomas White and was know as the mouth because of his obscene language and disrespectful behaviour. 😡😤

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The prison opened in 1867 and stayed open for 66 years

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After 20 lashes convicts would collapse

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Some of the jobs the prisoners had was, baker, farmer, butler, cook,tailor.

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THEY HAD NO WOMEN ON THE ISLAND BUT THE WARDERS WIVES AND KIDS COULD BE WOMEN

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Over 75 Tonnes of sugarcane was grown and crushed on the island.

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Over 72

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And he survived

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The early form of communication was use of flags

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After 20 lashes with a cat-o-nine-tails, most prisoners collapsed

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Over 75 tones  sugar cane was crushed on the island

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no girls w

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The prisoners water supply was stored in several massive con

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They took the sugar cane away and had to cut down all the trees as prisoners kept attempting to escape.

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They used flags to communicate with the mainland

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Two prisoners escaped or drowned or eaten by sharks

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TWO ESCAPEES EITHER DROWNED OR WERE EATEN BY SHARKS IN MORETON BAY

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Convicts weren't allowed tools, games and

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Over 75 tones of sugarcane was grown and crushed on St Helena island

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I learnt that the island was self sufficient for just after two years of settling.
I learnt that only one prisoner ever successfully escaped
I learnt that they quit growing sugarcane because it got too long and any prisoner could hide in it.
I learnt that there were four punishments, the first you would lose your indulgences, second you would do shot drill, third you got the cat o nine tails and then...the BLACK HOLE.
I learnt that at the end of the building which the prisoners slept in there was a night water who had special boots to listen to plans of escape from prisoners.
St Helena wasn't for convicts it was for normal prisoners from the mainland when the Brisbane jails started overflowing.
They stored trees on ships in case your mast broke
At one point of time the governors sent all the women and children back to the mainland because there wasn't enough space.
There was a tramway around the island.
They built their buildings from beachrock  on the island

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Matthew Flinders discovered St Helena.

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TO ESCAPEES

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The breakfast that they had was hominy made of mushy maize porridge made from milk or water.

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There was a prisoner that attempted to escape in a bath tub

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The third punishment was the shot drill

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Their punishment was to lose Tabaco get 20 lashes cell confinement and shot drills

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They could only send a letter to their relatives every two months

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They had a school for the warders children that was also used as a church

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There are four diffrent punishments and they are shot drill, the Black hole, catoninetail and losing their valubule stuff