During the British colonial period, at least eleven islands off the coast of Australia were used as sites of “punitive relocation” for transported European convicts and Indigenous Australians. This article traces the networks of correspondence between the officials and the Colonial Office in London as they debated the merits of various offshore islands to incarcerate different populations. It identifies three roles that carceral islands served for colonial governance and economic expansion. First, the use of convicts as colonizers of strategic islands for territorial and commercial expansion. Second, to punish transported convicts found guilty of “misconduct” to maintain order in colonial society. Third, to expel Indigenous Australians who resisted colonization from their homeland. It explores how, as “colonial peripheries”, islands were part of a colonial system of punishment based around mobility and distance, which mirrored in microcosm convict flows between the metropole and the Australian colonies.

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天然绿巨人：殖民时期的澳大利亚卡塞拉尔群岛，1788-1901

在英国殖民时期，澳大利亚海岸外至少有 11 个岛屿被用作运送欧洲罪犯和澳大利亚土著人的“惩罚性搬迁”地点。本文追溯了官员与伦敦殖民办公室之间的通信网络，因为他们就各种近海岛屿监禁不同人口的优点进行了辩论。它确定了监狱岛屿在殖民治理和经济扩张中所扮演的三个角色。首先，利用罪犯作为战略岛屿的殖民者进行领土和商业扩张。第二，惩处因维护殖民地社会秩序而犯有“不当行为”的转运犯。第三，将抵制殖民的澳大利亚原住民驱逐出他们的家园。它探讨了如何作为“殖民地边缘”，