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Bernier Island is one of three islands that comprise the Bernier and Dorre Island Nature Reserve in the Shark Bay World Heritage area in Western Australia. [1] The island and the neighbouring Dorre Island were locations for a lock hospital in the early 1900s. [2]: 58–61 [3]
From 1908 to 1919, the Western Australian government created lock hospitals on Bernier and Dorre Islands, in order to forcibly incarcerate Aboriginal people suspected of having a venereal disease. [1]: 59–61 [2]: 26 Specifically, Aboriginal people suspected of being infected with syphilis were incarcerated. However it is known that many cases ...
Dorre Island is one of three islands that make up the Bernier and Dorre Island Nature Reserve in the Shark Bay World Heritage area in Western Australia. [1] [2] The island was named after Peter Dorre, the pilot of a Dutch vessel, the Eendracht, in 1616. [3] It was, with Bernier Island, a lock hospital location in the early 1900s. [4]: 58–61 [5]
In March 1910, a young restaurateur called Louis Bush refurbished an old Mack Truck chassis, painted it blue and gray and began offering sightseeing tours around the city of Washington, D.C. By 1926, Gray Line had expanded to other booming cities including New York , Chicago , Detroit , New Orleans , Los Angeles , San Francisco , as well as ...
Peoria Charter Coach Company is a family-owned bus company based in Peoria, Illinois, which provides charter bus services, custom group tours, and transportation from several universities in Illinois to Chicago suburbs and airports. It is a contract charter bus service provider for the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign.
The Buffalo News. Archived from the original on 2012-01-17. Timothy Lake (January 14, 2012). "Tragedy In The Sky: 1951 Catt. County Crash Helped Shape Future Of Airline Industry". The Post-Journal. "AP Report of the Crash of Flight 44-2 (with pictures of crash site and names of crew and passengers)". The Associated Press. December 31, 1951.
Scheffler had a career year on Tour last season, where he picked up his third straight player of the year award. He didn’t miss a single cut in his 19 starts, and he finished outside the top 10 ...
The construction of the Buffalo Naval and Servicemen's Park (later named the Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park) started in 1977. The park was opened to the public on July 4, 1979. [ 2 ] The Cleveland -class cruiser USS Little Rock and the Fletcher -class destroyer USS The Sullivans were part of the original display. [ 1 ]